Code
31523712
Duration
01 January 2012 → 31 December 2014
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Engineering and technology
- Construction engineering
- Earthquake engineering
- Geotechnical and environmental engineering
- Water engineering
- Wind engineering
- Power electronics
- Energy generation, conversion and storage engineering
- Ceramic and glass materials
- Materials science and engineering
- Semiconductor materials
- Other materials engineering
- Biological system engineering
- Other engineering and technology
Keywords
WEC near-field effects
point absorbers
DHI Shalow Water Wave Basin
model development
reneable energy
wave basin
green energy
WEC farms
wave energy converters
WEC far-field effects
model construction
WEC (farm) wake effects
WEC
laboratory tests
WECwakes research project
HYDRALAB-IV
wave energy
Project description
Development and construction of the 25 point absorber wave energy converter (WEC) scale models, used during the international research project ‘WECwakes’. The WEC-models have been used for large-scale experimental testing in the DHI ‘Shalow Water Wave Basin’ (Denmark) within the EU-FP7-Programme, ‘HYDRALAB-IV’. This experimental set-up of 25 WECs in a farm layout is at present the largest, worldwide, studying WEC farm near-field and far-field wake effects.