Description
Collaborative effort between AquaHarmonics, Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to revise and validate Aquaharmonics' full wave to wire model, allowing for reduced uncertainty and increased understanding of design requirements of a utility scale wave energy converter (WEC). SNL and NREL in collaboration with AquaHarmonics, will set up and run WEC Simulator (WEC-Sim) models of the AquaHarmonics WEC, building off past model developments for inclusion of custom PTO (power take-off) dynamics. The intent is to review, update, and verify or validate a new WEC-Sim model against wave tank experimental data. Furthermore, the WEC-Sim model will be coupled to an energy storage system model to better understand the wave-to-wire functionality.
Project is part of the TEAMER RFTS 2 (request for technical support) system of WEC research projects. Testing data can be found in the associated MHKDR link below.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| AH-20230123T214334Z-001.zip | ZIP | TEAMER WEC-Sim files and date #1 | Open resource |
| AH-20230123T214334Z-002.zip | ZIP | TEAMER WEC-Sim files and date #2 | Open resource |
| AH-20230123T214334Z-003.zip | ZIP | TEAMER WEC-Sim files and date #3 | Open resource |
| READ_ME_Simulink.docx | Doc | Description of Simulink files, instructions for getting free decay time history, doing an RAO calculation, determining impedance, comparing added mass of different BEMIO results, running model free decay analysis, finding total damping coefficient for experimental data, and finding linear viscous damping coefficient for a single BEMIO model. | Open resource |
| Read_Me.docx | Doc | Document outlining the overall file structure of the 3 zip folders as well as some key points about the data within them. | Open resource |
| WEC Test Results and Logs | HTML | Testing logs and results that accompany this model. | Open resource |