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Modeling, Design and Commercialization of Wave Energy Converters
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Modeling, Design and Commercialization of Wave Energy Converters

A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2020) | Viewed by 4052

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Jens Peter Kofoed

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Department of Civil Engineering, Aalborg University, Thomas Manns Vej 23, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark
Interests: instrumentation; experimental modeling; design and testing of wave energy converters; wave structure interaction; hydrodynamic modeling and control; wave modeling and analysis
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Amélie Tetu

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Department of Civil Engineering, Aalborg University, DK-9220 Aalborg, Denmark
Interests: wave modeling, forecasting and analysis; laboratory and real sea testing of wave energy converters; instrumentation; levelized cost of energy calculation and analysis

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In order to tackle the climate change and environmental pollution challenge, many strategies at the global, European, and national level have been defined. All of them include the further development of renewable energy extraction technologies, and to reach the green energy transition, wave energy has its place in the future energy mix. Challenges remain regarding modeling and design of wave energy converters (WECs) in order to reach commercialization. These challenges will be addressed in this Special Issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. More specifically, high-quality papers regarding wave energy converter technologies related to the following topics are very much encouraged:

  • Hydrodynamic numerical modeling;
  • Experimental modeling and testing;
  • Real sea testing;
  • Design optimization;
  • Resource modeling and characterization;
  • Mooring modeling and design;
  • Power take-off modeling and design;
  • Levelized cost of energy analysis;
  • Commercialization strategies.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jens Peter Kofoed
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Amélie Tetu
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • Wave energy converters
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Numerical modeling
  • Experimental testing
  • Moorings
  • Power take-off
  • Commercialization

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Numerical and Experimental Identification of the Aerodynamic Power Losses of the ISWEC
by Antonello Sergej Sirigu, Federico Gallizio, Giuseppe Giorgi, Mauro Bonfanti, Giovanni Bracco and Giuliana Mattiazzo
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2020, 8(1), 49; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/jmse8010049 - 16 Jan 2020
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The wave energy sector is experiencing lively years of conceptual innovation and technological advances. Among the great variety of candidates, only a few are going to be able to reach maturity and, eventually, industrial feasibility and competitiveness. The essential requisite for success is [...] Read more.
The wave energy sector is experiencing lively years of conceptual innovation and technological advances. Among the great variety of candidates, only a few are going to be able to reach maturity and, eventually, industrial feasibility and competitiveness. The essential requisite for success is the continuous innovation in response to the incremental experience gained during the design and prototyping stages. In particular, the ability to generate detailed mathematical models, representative of every phenomenon involved in the system, is crucial for informing the design and control stages, allowing to maximize productivity while minimizing costs, and inspiring technological breakthrough and innovation. This papers considers the case of the ISWEC (Inertial Sea Wave Energy Converter), where a technological leap is tightly linked with the modelling of aerodynamic losses around its spinning flywheel, the core of the energy conversion chain. Two mathematical models of increasing complexity are considered, one semi-empiric and one based on computational fluid dynamics, which are successfully validated against experimental data. Such models are used to quantify the benefits of a technological innovation consisting of enclosing the flywheel in a sealed container, allowing pressure regulation to reduce aerodynamic friction. Compared to the free configuration, power losses with the enclosed configuration are about half already at atmospheric pressure, and about one third at half the atmospheric pressure. Full article
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