International Energy Agency Ocean Energy Systems Task 10 Wave Energy Converter Modeling Verification and Validation: Preprint

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OSTI ID:1401957

Wendt, Fabian F ^[1]; Yu, Yi-Hsiang ^[1]; Nielsen, Kim ^[2]; Ruehl, Kelley ^[3]; Bunnik, Tim ^[4]; Touzon, Imanol ^[5]; Nam, Bo Woo ^[6]; Kim, Jeong Seok ^[6]; Janson, Carl Erik ^[7]; Jakobsen, Ken-Robert ^[8]; Crowley, Sarah ^[9]; Vega, Luis ^[10]; Rajagopalan, Krishnakimar ^[10]; Mathai, Thomas ^[11]; Greaves, Deborah ^[12]; Ransley, Edward ^[12]; Lamont-Kane, Paul ^[13]; Sheng, Wanan ^[14]; Costello, Ronan ^[15]; Kennedy, Ben ^[15] ; Thomas, Sarah ^[16]; Heras, Pilar ^[16]; Bingham, Harry ^[17]; Kurniawan, Adi ^[18]; Kramer, Morten Mejlhede ^[18]; Ogden, David ^[19]; Girardin, Samuel ^[19]; Babarit, Aurelien ^[20]; Wuillaume, Pierre-Yves ^[20]; Steinke, Dean ^[21]; Roy, Andre ^[21]; Beatty, Scott ^[22]; Schofield, Paul ^[23]; Kim, Kyong-Hwan ^[6]; Jansson, Johan ^[24]; Hoffman, Johan ^[25]

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1. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
2. Ramboll, Copenhagen (Denmark)
3. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
4. MARIN (Netherlands)
5. Tecnalia (Spain)
6. KRISO (Korea, Rep. of)
7. Chalmers University (Sweden)
8. EDRMedeso (Norway)
9. WavEC (Portugal)
10. Hawaii Natural Energy Institute (United States)
11. Glosten (United States)
12. Plymouth University (United Kingdom)
13. Queen's University Belfast (United Kingdom)
14. University College Cork (Ireland)
15. Wave Venture (United Kingdom)
16. Floating Power Plant (Denmark)
17. Technical University of Denmark (Denmark)
18. Aalborg University (Denmark)
19. INNOSEA (France)
20. EC Nantes (France)
21. Dynamic Systems Analysis (Canada)
22. Cascadia Coast Research (Canada)
23. ANSYS (United States)
24. KTH Royal Inst. of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden); BCAM (Spain)
25. KTH Royal Inst. of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden)

This is the first joint reference paper for the Ocean Energy Systems (OES) Task 10 Wave Energy Converter modeling verification and validation group. The group is established under the OES Energy Technology Network program under the International Energy Agency. OES was founded in 2001 and Task 10 was proposed by Bob Thresher (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) in 2015 and approved by the OES Executive Committee EXCO in 2016. The kickoff workshop took place in September 2016, wherein the initial baseline task was defined. Experience from similar offshore wind validation/verification projects (OC3-OC5 conducted within the International Energy Agency Wind Task 30) [1], [2] showed that a simple test case would help the initial cooperation to present results in a comparable way. A heaving sphere was chosen as the first test case. The team of project participants simulated different numerical experiments, such as heave decay tests and regular and irregular wave cases. The simulation results are presented and discussed in this paper.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Wind and Water Technologies Office (EE-4W)
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1401957
• Report Number(s): NREL/CP-5000-68465
• Resource Relation: Conference: European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Cork (Ireland), 27 Aug - 2 Sep 2012
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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wave power
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validation
code comparison
international cooperation
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OES
Task 10
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heaving sphere
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