Paulo Roberto de Freitas Teixeira

Analysis of the performance of a top-hinged flap-type wave energy converter using a RANS-VoF numerical model

The performance of a full-scale top-hinged flap-type wave energy converter in the open sea is analyzed numerically in this study. A free surface flow Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes numerical model is used with the ANSYS Fluent® software. The flap, 7 m long, is immersed in a flum...