Design and modeling of wave energy converter

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.