| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6765010 | Renewable Energy | 2018 | 22 Pages |
Abstract
The two new candidate obstacle cases were compared by considering up to 5 BBDB devices subject to irregular wave conditions. For an individual device, a region of significantly perturbed wave heights, referred to as a wake, stretched 200Â m in the lee of the WEC, with the maximum impact on wave heights seen 50Â m behind the device. The wake behind five devices is largely dependent on the device spacing. The five unit WEC array only presented decreases of wave height between 0.2 and 0.7Â m 200Â m behind the last device in the array. A five unit WEC array model showed that estimates of individual WEC power performance was reduced by 2.3% and 6.0% when implementing the two new obstacle cases.
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Authors
Ewelina Luczko, Bryson Robertson, Helen Bailey, Clayton Hiles, Bradley Buckham,