Experimental Testing of a Floating Oscillating Surge Wave Energy Converter at Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory

Description

In order to generate a public data set that can be used to validate Wave Energy Converter (WEC) numerical codes, such as WEC-Sim, Sandia National Laboratories led an experimental testing campaign of a 1:33 scale Floating Oscillating Surge Wave Energy Converter (FOSWEC) in the Directional Wave Basin at Oregon State University's Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory. Testing was performed in two phases; Phase 1 testing was completed in November - December 2015, and Phase 2 testing was completed in May - June 2016. This experimental testing report details the selection and design of a FOSWEC, experimental setup and tests, and overview of the resulting dataset from Phase 1 and Phase 2 testing.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
33 Experimental Testing of a Floating Oscillating Surge Wave Energy Converter (SAND Report: SAND2019-3087) https://mhkdr.openei.org/files/310/FOSWEC_testReport.pdf
21 GitHub Repository for FOSWEC Data Processing Scripts https://github.com/WEC-Sim/FOSWEC
57 Experimental Testing of a Floating Oscillating Surge Wave Energy Converter (documentation, data, and geometry files) https://mhkdr.openei.org/files/310/FOSWEC%20%285%29.zip

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  • wave-energy
  • oscillating
  • data
  • converter
  • wave-tank
  • hydrokinetic
  • experiment
  • directional-wave-basin
  • test
  • hinsdale
  • mhk
  • wave
  • experimental
  • wec
  • oscillation
  • marine
  • lab-test
  • wec-sim
  • foswec
  • power
  • surge
  • sandia
  • energy

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