scholarly journals Duct Attachment on Improving Breaking Wave Zone Energy Extractor Device Performance

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (19) ◽  
pp. 6428
Author(s):  
Krisna Adi Pawitan ◽  
Hideki Takebe ◽  
Hanley Andrean ◽  
Shuji Misumi ◽  
Jun Fujita ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wave Energy ◽  
Impact Pressure ◽  
Breaking Wave ◽  
Wave Zone ◽  
Power Generator ◽  
Energy Part ◽  
Flow Through ◽  
Early Exploration ◽  
Wave Angle ◽  
The Impact

A challenging wave energy converter design that utilized the denser energy part of the nearshore breaking wave zone to generate electricity was introduced in 2016 by Shintake. The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University’s project aims to take advantage of breaking wave energy to harness electricity. The 2016 version of the device consisted only of a bare turbine and power generator. Early exploration of the design recorded short periods and high impact wave pressures were experienced by the structure, with the turbine unable to harvest energy effectively. Additional structure to not only reduce incoming impact pressure but also increase the duration of water flow through the turbine was needed. These are the main reasons behind incorporating the duct attachment into the design. This paper show that the duct is capable of halving the impact pressure experienced by the turbine and can increase the energy exposure by up to 1.6 times the bare turbine configuration. Furthermore, it is also said that wave angle (β) = 40° is the critical angle, although the duct still increases wave energy exposure to the power take-off up to β = 60°.

Relation Between Flow Velocity and Impact Pressure in a Green Water Flow

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kusalika Ariyarathne ◽  
Kuang-An Chang ◽  
Richard Mercier
Keyword(s):  
Kinetic Energy ◽  
Void Fraction ◽  
Pressure Rise ◽  
Impact Pressure ◽  
Breaking Wave ◽  
Wave Condition ◽  
Wall Impingement ◽  
Impact Coefficient ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Mean Kinetic Energy

Impact pressure due to plunging breaking waves impinging on a simplified model structure was investigated in the laboratory based on two breaking wave conditions: the wall impingement wave condition and the deck impingement wave condition. Pressure, void fraction, and velocities were measured at various locations on the deck surface. Impact pressure was correlated with the mean kinetic energy calculated based on the measured mean velocities and void fraction to obtain the impact coefficient. For the wall impingement wave condition, the relationship between impact pressure and mean kinetic energy is linear with the impact coefficient close to unity. For the deck impingement wave condition, the above relationship does not show good correlation, whereas the impact coefficient was found to be a function of the rate of pressure rise.

Impact Pressure, Void Fraction, and Green Water Velocity due to Plunging Breaking Wave Impingement on a 2D Tension-Leg Structure

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-Liang Chuang ◽  
Kuang-An Chang ◽  
Richard Mercier
Keyword(s):  
Void Fraction ◽  
Bubbly Flow ◽  
Vertical Wall ◽  
Pressure Sensors ◽  
Density Variation ◽  
Impact Pressure ◽  
Green Water ◽  
Breaking Wave ◽  
Peak Pressures ◽  
The Impact

Violent impacts due to plunging waves impinging on a 2D tension-leg model structure were experimentally investigated in a laboratory. In the experiment, velocities, pressures, and void fraction were simultaneously measured and the relationship among them was examined. The nonintrusive bubble image velocimetry technique was employed to quantify the instantaneous bubbly flow velocities and structure motion. Pressures on the structure vertical wall above the still water level were measured by four differential pressure sensors. Additionally, four fiber optic reflectometer probes were used to measure the void fraction coincidently with the pressure sensors. With repeated simultaneous, coincident velocity, pressure and void fraction measurements, temporal evolution of the ensemble-averaged velocities, pressures, and void fraction were demonstrated and correlated. Relationship between the peak pressures and their rise time was examined and summarized in dimensionless form. Impact coefficients that relate the impact pressure with flow kinetic energy were obtained from the ensemble-averaged measurements. Finally, the impact coefficients with and without the consideration of the fluid density variation due to bubbles were examined and compared.

scholarly journals Armor Damage of Overtopped Mound Breakwaters in Depth-Limited Breaking Wave Conditions

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 952
Author(s):  
Patricia Mares-Nasarre ◽  
Gloria Argente ◽  
M. Esther Gómez-Martín ◽  
Josep R. Medina
Keyword(s):  
Failure Mode ◽  
Double Layer ◽  
Wave Energy ◽  
Single Layer ◽  
Rear Side ◽  
Breaking Wave ◽  
Wave Zone ◽  
Physical Tests ◽  
Wave Conditions ◽  
Hydraulic Stability

Armor damage due to wave attack is the principal failure mode to be considered when designing conventional mound breakwaters. Armor layers of mound breakwaters are typically designed using formulas in the literature for non-overtopped mound breakwaters in non-breaking wave conditions, although overtopped mound breakwaters in the depth-induced breaking wave zone are common design conditions. In this study, 2D physical tests with an armor slope H/V = 3/2 are analyzed in order to better describe the hydraulic stability of overtopped mound breakwaters with double-layer rock, double-layer randomly-place cube and single-layer Cubipod® armors in depth-limited breaking wave conditions. Hydraulic stability formulas are derived for each armor section (front slope, crest and rear slope) and each armor layer. The front slope of overtopped double-layer rock structures is more stable than the front slope of non-overtopped mound breakwaters in breaking wave conditions. When wave attack increases, armor damage appears first on the front slope, later on the crest and, finally, on the rear side. However, once the damage begins on the crest and rear side, the progression is much faster than on the front slope, because more wave energy is dissipated through the armored crest and rear side.

Violent breaking wave impacts. Part 3. Effects of scale and aeration

2015 ◽  
Vol 765 ◽  
pp. 82-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Bredmose ◽  
G. N. Bullock ◽  
A. J. Hogg
Keyword(s):  
Scaling Law ◽  
Numerical Results ◽  
Impact Pressure ◽  
Breaking Wave ◽  
Asymptotic Model ◽  
Physical Model Tests ◽  
Pressure Maximum ◽  
Air Pockets ◽  
Entrained Air ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe effects of scale and aeration on violent breaking wave impacts with trapped and entrained air are investigated both analytically and numerically. By dimensional analysis we show that the impact pressures for Froude scaled conditions prior to the impact depend on the scale and aeration level. The Bagnold–Mitsuyasu scaling law for the compression of an air pocket by a piston of incompressible water is rederived and generalised to 3D air pockets of arbitrary shape. Numerical results for wall pressure, force and impulse are then presented for a flip-through impact, a low-aeration impact and a high-aeration impact, for nine scales and five levels of initial aeration. Two of these impact types trap a pocket of air at the wall. Among the findings of the paper is that for fixed initial aeration, impact pressures from the flip-through impact broadly follow Froude scaling. This is also the case for the two impact types with trapped air pockets for impact pressures below 318 kPa, while impact pressures above this value broadly follow the Bagnold–Mitsuyasu scaling law with full-scale pressures greater than those predicted by the Froude law. For all impact types, the effect of aeration is found to reduce the maximum impact pressure, maximum force and impulse. Good agreement with the asymptotic model of Peregrine & Thais (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 325, 1996, pp. 377–397) is found for the flip-through impact pressure and a fair agreement is found for the low- and high-aeration impacts. Based on the numerical results, a modified scaling curve that combines Froude scaling and the Bagnold–Mitsuyasu law is suggested. The practical implications of the findings are discussed and attention is drawn to the limitations of physical model tests.

Green Water on a Fixed Model in a Large Wave Basin: Flow Velocity, Void Fraction, and Impact Pressure Distributions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-Liang Chuang ◽  
Kuang-An Chang ◽  
Richard Mercier
Keyword(s):  
Flow Velocity ◽  
Void Fraction ◽  
Vertical Wall ◽  
Pressure Sensors ◽  
Impact Pressure ◽  
Green Water ◽  
Breaking Wave ◽  
Large Wave ◽  
Wave Basin ◽  
The Impact

Green water impact due to extreme waves impinging on a fixed, rectangular shaped model structure was investigated experimentally. The experiment was carried out in the large wave basin of the Offshore Technology Research Center at Texas A&M University. In the study, two wave conditions were considered: a plunging breaking wave impinging on the frontal vertical wall (referred as wall impingement) and a breaking wave directly impinging on the deck surface (referred as deck impingement). The aerated flow velocity was measured by employing the bubble image velocimetry (BIV) technique with high speed cameras. The pressure distribution on the deck surface was measured by four differential pressure sensors. The fiber optic reflectometer (FOR) technique was employed to measure the void fraction in front of each pressure sensor end face. The flow velocity, void fraction, and impact pressure, were synchronized and simultaneously measured. Comparisons between an earlier study by Ryu et al. (2007) and the present study were performed to examine the scale effect. Results between Song et al. (2015) and the present results were also compared to investigate the influence of structure geometry on green water flow and impact pressure. To examine the role of air bubbles during the impact, the velocity, pressure, and void fraction were correlated. Correlation between the peak pressure and the aeration level shows a negative trend before the wave impingement but a positive linear relationship after the impingement.

scholarly journals Influence of the Spatial Pressure Distribution of Breaking Wave Loading on the Dynamic Response of Wolf Rock Lighthouse

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Darshana T. Dassanayake ◽  
Alessandro Antonini ◽  
Athanasios Pappas ◽  
Alison Raby ◽  
James Mark William Brownjohn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Response ◽  
Pressure Distribution ◽  
Distinct Element ◽  
Breaking Waves ◽  
Breaking Wave ◽  
Wave Loading ◽  
Wave Impact ◽  
Pressure Distributions ◽  
Impact Area ◽  
The Impact

The survivability analysis of offshore rock lighthouses requires several assumptions of the pressure distribution due to the breaking wave loading (Raby et al. (2019), Antonini et al. (2019). Due to the peculiar bathymetries and topographies of rock pinnacles, there is no dedicated formula to properly quantify the loads induced by the breaking waves on offshore rock lighthouses. Wienke’s formula (Wienke and Oumeraci (2005) was used in this study to estimate the loads, even though it was not derived for breaking waves on offshore rock lighthouses, but rather for the breaking wave loading on offshore monopiles. However, a thorough sensitivity analysis of the effects of the assumed pressure distribution has never been performed. In this paper, by means of the Wolf Rock lighthouse distinct element model, we quantified the influence of the pressure distributions on the dynamic response of the lighthouse structure. Different pressure distributions were tested, while keeping the initial wave impact area and pressure integrated force unchanged, in order to quantify the effect of different pressure distribution patterns. The pressure distributions considered in this paper showed subtle differences in the overall dynamic structure responses; however, pressure distribution #3, based on published experimental data such as Tanimoto et al. (1986) and Zhou et al. (1991) gave the largest displacements. This scenario has a triangular pressure distribution with a peak at the centroid of the impact area, which then linearly decreases to zero at the top and bottom boundaries of the impact area. The azimuthal horizontal distribution was adopted from Wienke and Oumeraci’s work (2005). The main findings of this study will be of interest not only for the assessment of rock lighthouses but also for all the cylindrical structures built on rock pinnacles or rocky coastlines (with steep foreshore slopes) and exposed to harsh breaking wave loading.

scholarly journals Ocean Wave Energy Utilization using Magnetostrictive Vibrational Power Generator

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. I_1306-I_1310
Author(s):  
Takehis SAITOH ◽  
Junpei WAGATSUM ◽  
Toshiyuki UENO ◽  
Shot KITA
Keyword(s):  
Wave Energy ◽  
Energy Utilization ◽  
Ocean Wave ◽  
Power Generator ◽  
Ocean Wave Energy

Research on the Impact Pressure of the Hydraulic Rolling-Cut Shear

2010 ◽  
Vol 145 ◽  
pp. 410-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Wang ◽  
He Yong Han ◽  
Qing Xue Huang ◽  
Jun Wang
Keyword(s):  
Hydraulic System ◽  
Impact Pressure ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Actual Situation ◽  
Work Situation ◽  
Servo Valve ◽  
Indirect Impact ◽  
Hydraulic Servo ◽  
Hydraulic Servo System ◽  
The Impact

The reasons for impact pressure are obtained by the research the hydraulic system of Hydraulic Rolling-Cut Shear. The impact pressure of hydraulic system is divided into direct impact and indirect impact. Based on analyzing the actual situation the measures should be taken to reduce the impact pressure when design hydraulic system. The suitable length of pipeline can improve the performance of the hydraulic system because the length is important for the impact pressure. The accumulator can absorb impact pressure and improve the work situation of servo valve. Therefore, the suitable accumulators should be set in the hydraulic system. The study provides theory basis for the pipe design of large hydraulic servo system.

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