Modelling and Optimization of Wave Energy Converters

Wave energy offers a promising renewable energy source, however, technologies converting wave energy into useful electricity face many design challenges. This guide presents numerical modelling and optimization methods for the development of wave energy converter technologies, from principles to applications. It covers the development status and perspectives of wave energy converter systems; the fundamental theories on wave power absorption; the modern wave energy converter concepts including oscillating bodies in single and multiple degree of freedom and oscillating water column technologies; and the relatively hitherto unexplored topic of wave energy harvesting farms. It can be used as a specialist student textbook as well as a reference book for the design of wave energy harvesting systems, across a broad range of disciplines, including renewable energy, marine engineering, infrastructure engineering, hydrodynamics, ocean science, and mechatronics engineering. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.routledge.com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Part I Introduction 1. Wave energy converter systems - status and perspectives (Robert Mayon, Dezhi Ning, Boyin Ding, Nataliia Y. Sergiienko) Part II Fundamental Theories Applicable to Wave Energy Harvesting 2. Fluid dynamics and wave-structure interactions (Malin Göteman, Robert Mayon, Yingyi Liu, Siming Zheng, Rongquan Wang) 3. Wave energy converter modelling, control, and power take-off design (Leandro S.P. da Silva, Boyin Ding, Bingyong Guo, Nataliia Y. Sergiienko) Part III Wave Energy Converters 4. Point absorber wave energy converters (Bingyong Guo) 5. Multi-mode wave energy converter (Nataliia Y. Sergiienko, Boyin Din) 6. Attenuator wave energy converters (Siming Zheng) 7. Oscillating water column wave energy converters (Rongquan Wang, Dezhi Ning, Robert Mayon) Part IV Wave Energy Converter Arrays/Farms 8. Large-scale computation of wave energy converter arrays (Yingyi Liu) 9. Optimisation of wave farms (Malin Göteman)

Dezhi Ning is a professor in the field of Ocean Engineering and Offshore Renewable Energy at Dalian University of Technology, China. Boyin Ding is an associate professor (reader) at the School of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Adelaide, Australia.