2012/09/27 by Emiliano Renzi, Renzi, Emiliano, Frédéric Dias +2
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Classical Physics (physics.class-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn) #Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing #Wave and Wind Energy Systems #physics.class-ph #physics.flu-dyn
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1209.6303
Accepted for publication on Applied Ocean Research, 26 Sept 2012
arxiv created 2012/09/27 · openalex publication_date 2012/09/27 · arxiv updated 2012/09/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This paper investigates the interaction of plane incident waves with a wave farm in the open ocean. The farm consists of a periodic array of large flap-type wave energy converters. A linear inviscid potential-flow model, already developed by the authors for a single flap in a channel, is considered. Asymptotic analysis of the wave field allows to obtain new expressions of the reflection, transmission and radiation coefficients of the system. It is shown that, unlike a line of heaving buoys, an array of flap-type converters is able to exploit resonance of the system transverse modes in order to attain high capture factor levels. Relations between the hydrodynamic coefficients are derived and applied for optimising the power output of the wave farm.