• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.513-528
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• 2013

A floating Oscillating Water Column (OWC) wave energy converter, a Backward Bent Duct Buoy (BBDB), was simulated using a state-of-the-art, two-dimensional, fully-nonlinear Numerical Wave Tank (NWT) technique. The hydrodynamic performance of the floating OWC device was evaluated in the time domain. The acceleration potential method, with a full-updated kernel matrix calculation associated with a mode decomposition scheme, was implemented to obtain accurate estimates of the hydrodynamic force and displacement of a freely floating BBDB. The developed NWT was based on the potential theory and the boundary element method with constant panels on the boundaries. The mixed Eulerian-Lagrangian (MEL) approach was employed to capture the nonlinear free surfaces inside the chamber that interacted with a pneumatic pressure, induced by the time-varying airflow velocity at the air duct. A special viscous damping was applied to the chamber free surface to represent the viscous energy loss due to the BBDB's shape and motions. The viscous damping coefficient was properly selected using a comparison of the experimental data. The calculated surface elevation, inside and outside the chamber, with a tuned viscous damping correlated reasonably well with the experimental data for various incident wave conditions. The conservation of the total wave energy in the computational domain was confirmed over the entire range of wave frequencies.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2010

Oscillating Water Column is one of the most widely used converting systems all over the world. The operating performance is influenced by the efficiencies of the two converting stages in the OWC chamber-turbine integrated system. In order to study the effects of the pressure drop induced by the air turbine, the experiments using the impulse turbine and the orifice device are carried out in the wave simulator test rig. The numerical simulation utilizing the orifice and porous media modules is calculated and validated by the corresponding experimental data. The numerical wave tank based on the two-phase VOF model embedded with the above modules is employed to investigate the wave elevation, pressure variation inside the chamber and the air flow velocity in the duct. The effects of the air turbine on the integrated system and interaction among the wave elevation, pressure and air flow velocities variations are investigated, which demonstrates that the present numerical model are more accurate to be employed.

• 한국해양공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양공학회 2004년도 학술대회지
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• pp.212-219
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• 2004

The effect of frequency and amplitude of the OWC (Oscillating Water Column) motion on the nonlinear reaction forces in an air duct arc studied experimentally. Experimental OWC model is idealized as a simple circular cylinder with an orifice type air duct located at the middle of the top rid. Reaction forces due to forced heave oscillation are measured and analyzed. By subtracting the effect of inertia forces and restoring forces, pneumatic damping force and added spring force are deduced. The effects of the frequency and amplitude of the heave motion are discussed. Also, the effects of solidity of the duct on the reaction forces are discussed.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.22-29
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• 2008

A numerical investigation is made on the effects of the location and shape of the front wall of an OWC(Oscillating Water Column) chamber on the hydroelastic response of a VLFS. Most of the studies on the effects of an OWC chamber on the response of a VLFS have assumed the location of the OWC chamber to be at the front of the VLFS. In the present study, an OWC-chamber is introduced at an arbitrary position in relation to a VLFS to determine the influence of the location and shape of the OWC chamber on the hydroelastic response of the VLFS. A finite element method is adopted as a numerical scheme for the fluid domain. or the finite element method, combined with a mode superposition method, is applied in order to consider the change of mass and stiffness The OWC chamber in a piecewise constant manner. or the facilitated anefficient analysis of The hydroelastic response of the VLFS, as well as the easy modeling of different shape and material properties for the structure. Reduction of hydroelastic response of the VLFS is investigated for various locations and front wall shapes of the owe chamber.

• 한국해양환경ㆍ에너지학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.182-188
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• 2014

진동수주형 파력발전시스템의 성능은 OWC챔버의 형상 뿐만 아니라 입사파의 각도와 터빈의 효과로 인한 압력강하등과 같은 작동환경의 영향도 받는다. 기존의 대부분 연구들은 파랑에너지 흡수효율에 초점을 맞췄기 때문에 입사파 방향이 OWC챔버 입구면과 직각을 이룬다는 가정 하에 수행되었다. 하지만 실해역에서는 입사파가 해양환경에 따라 사파의 형태로 입사하게 될 것이고, 고정식 구조물인 경우에는 그 영향이 더욱 지배적이다. 본 논문은 실험 및 수치해석적인 방법으로 사파중 OWC챔버의 성능에 대하여 고찰하였다. 실험은 3차원 조파수조를 이용하여 다양한 입사파 각도조건에서 수행하였다. 터빈의 영향을 고려하기 위하여 오리피스를 적용하여 챔버내 진동수주의 수위 변동을 계측하였다. VOF모델을 기반으로 한 수치조파수조를 구축하여 실험과 동일한 조건으로 계산을 수행하여 실험결과와 비교분석하여 공기실과 그 인근의 유동변화를 고찰하였다.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.270-279
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• 2022

In this study, numerical analysis and experiments were performed to analyze the viscous damping effect according to the shape of the chamber skirt of the breakwater-linked inclined oscillating water column wave energy converter. Experiments were conducted using a two-dimensional mini wave tank and verified by comparing the results of a computational fluid dynamics numerical analysis. Pointed and rounded skirts were modeled to compare the effect of viscous damping when incident waves enter the chamber, and the difference in the displacement of the water surface in the chamber was compared according to the wave period for the two skirt shapes. The wave elevation in the chamber in the rounded-skirt condition was larger than the pointed-skirt condition in all wave periods, which was approximately 47% greater at 0.9 s of the incident wave period. Therefore, extracting the maximum energy through the optimal orifice is possible while minimizing the energy attenuation in the rounded-skirt condition.

• 한국해양공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양공학회 2006년 창립20주년기념 정기학술대회 및 국제워크샵
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• pp.465-468
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• 2006

The wave power absorbing performance of a bottom-mounted oscillating water column (OWC) chamber structure is studied. The potential problem inside the chamber is solved by making use of the Green integral equation associated with the Rankine Green function while the outer problem with the Kelvin Green function taking account of fluctuating air pressure in the air chamber. The absorbed wave power, wave elevation inside the chamber, reflection coefficient and wave loads are calculated for various values of a parameter related to the fluctuating air pressure. The present methods can also be used for the design of a OWC breakwater which can absorb and reflect the incoming wave energy at the same time.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.11-17
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• 2005

The effect of frequency and amplitude of the OWC (Oscillating Water Column) motion on the nonlinear reaction forces in an air duct are studied experimentally. Experimental owe model is idealized as a simple circular cylinder with an orifice type air duct located at the middle oj the top rid. Reaction forces due to forced heave oscillation are measured and analyzed. By subtracting the effect of inertia forces and restoring forces, pneumatic damping force and added spring force are deduced. The effects of the frequency and amplitude of the heave motion are discussed. Also, the effects of solidity of the duct on the reaction forces are discussed.

• 한국해안·해양공학회논문집
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.345-357
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• 2011

최근 지구환경문제와 에너지원의 다각화를 위한 일환으로 파랑에너지를 이용하는 신재생에너지의 기술개발이 유럽과 일본 등을 중심으로 활발히 추진 및 실용화되고 있다. 특히, 케이슨 내의 공기실에서 파랑에 의한 수면의 상하운동으로 유도되는 공기흐름을 이용하는 진동수주형 파력발전시스템은 가장 효율적인 파랑에너지흡수장치로 알려져 있고, 따라서 상업화에 가장 근접한 파력발전장치 중에 하나이다. 본 연구에서는 진동수주형 파력발전구조물에서 터빈(Wells터빈)에 직접 작용하는 공기흐름속도를 2차원 및 3차원수치실험으로부터 검토하며, 이 때 형상의 변화에 따른 공기의 최대흐름속도를 추정하여 진동수주형 파력발전구조물의 최적형상을 논의한다. 수치해석에서는 기체와 액체의 혼상동적현상을 동일한 지배방정식으로 해석하는 혼상류(2상류)수치모델에 기초한 3차원수치파동수로를 적용하였다. 이로부터 입사주기대에 따라 최적형상의 크기가 상이하게 나타나는 것을 확인할 수 있었고, 최소의 반사율이 발생하는 주기 대에서 공기흐름이 최대로 된다는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국해양환경ㆍ에너지학회지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.173-180
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• 2007

파력에너지 변환을 위해 설계된 착저식 진동수주형 공기실 내의 파진폭 변화를 우리나라 연안의 특징적인 파랑 조건을 적용하여 조사하였다. 진동수주형 공기실의 형상인자가 파력에너지 변환에 미치는 영향을 파력에너지의 흡수 효율 관점에서 분석하였다. 실험적 및 수치적 접근법을 함께 사용하여 그 결과들을 상호 비교하였으며, 주어진 파랑 분포 하에서 파력에너지 흡수가 최대가 되는 형상인자들의 최적화를 목적으로 연구가 수행되었다. 실험은 공기실의 이차적원 형상을 가정하여 이차원 조파수조에서 실시되었으며, 수치적 해석은 공기실 내에서는 변동하는 공기압을 고려할 수 있도록 Rankine Green 함수를 적용하고 공기실 밖에서는 Kelvin Green 함수를 적용하는 합성 적분방정식에 기초하여 수행되었다. 공기실 상부의 덕트 직경, 공기실 폭, 공기실 전면벽 및 후면벽의 깊이는 흡수되는 파력에너지의 크기와 정점 주기를 민감하게 변화시키는 주요한 형상인자들임을 확인하였다.