Abstract:
The growing current interest fo marine renewable energy as the source of generate
electric to replace the main source which is fossil fuel due to the problem that the whole
world facing the depleted of the main source. Chosen of marine renewable. energy such as
ocean wave, ocean tidal and ocean thermal for the primary scurces for generating electric
has been seen a best solution because the energy form are continuously and also freegreen-
energy. In this study, the interaction between regular water waves, wave energy
converter based oscillating water wave column and overtopping concept geometry is
presented. Water wave are generated in numerical wave tank within the wave energy
converter with the commercial CFO software, Fluent. The VOF method has been applied
to form wave generation and the water and air interaction. Flow is assumed to be viscous,
unsteady and incompressible for the numerical model. This thesis presents the result of
simulation of wave energy converter concepts for which specifications of the model is the
best for final recommendation.