WEC Extreme Conditions Modeling Sandia Summer Intern 2017 Report
- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
- Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
- Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
This report contains work completed by a group of student interns during the summer of 2017. Under the guidance of Ryan Coe, Aubrey Eckert-Gallup, and Nevin Martin, a series of interrelated projects were completed on topics relating to extreme response and survival analysis of wave energy converters (WECs). Jarred Canning studied long-term design response analysis methods for WECs. Sam Edwards studied how variation in the selection of an environmental contour affects the characterization of WEC response in extreme conditions. Sam also led the integration of various components of this report and overall editing. Tyler Esterly produced a catalog of analyses for different ocean sites. Bibiana Seng studied clustering analyses for comparing the wave environments of different ocean sites. Lori Smith performed a comparison between analyses conducted using spectral wave data and analyses using deterministic time-domain wave data. William ("Zach") Stuart studied the sensitivity and convergence of environmental contour methods.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000; NA0003525
- OSTI ID:
- 1596200
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-2017-10592; 657293
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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