Open AccessMETHOD OF ESTIMATING THE POWER EXTRACTED BY FIXED COASTAL TYPE WAVE POWER EXTRACTORS
Author(s) -
Kenji Yano,
Hideo Kondo,
Tomiji Watabe
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
proceedings of conference on coastal engineering/proceedings of ... conference on coastal engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2156-1028
pISSN - 0589-087X
DOI - 10.9753/icce.v20.176
Subject(s) - power (physics) , absorption (acoustics) , energy (signal processing) , type (biology) , mathematical analysis , acoustics , transfer function , field (mathematics) , series (stratigraphy) , function (biology) , boundary value problem , mathematics , physics , mechanics , geology , statistics , engineering , electrical engineering , thermodynamics , paleontology , evolutionary biology , biology , pure mathematics
Study is performed on a vertical flap type energy converter, "Pendulor System". The power absorbed with the system in random waves is estimated using a transfer function of absorbed power (absorption coefficient) in regular waves and wave spectrum. A boundary element technique is applied to compute the hydrodynamic problem associated with the system which is placed in regular waves. The applicability of the method has been examined by a series of field test at a test plant caisson. The agreement between estimation and experiment was found to be good except near the resonance frequency of the system.