Work plan

 

The different tasks of the working plan are:

Task 1: Determination of extreme wave conditions

1.1) Estimation of the present and future wave parameters 

1.2) Obtaining wave parameters at a high spatial resolution 

Task 2: Experimental campaign at ICTS-CIEM

2.1) Design and setup of the experimental campaign 

2.2) Carrying out experiments in the CIEM flume 

2.3) Post-processing of the experimental data

Task 3: Numerical implementation of new functionalities in DualSPHysics

3.1) Coupling with a mooring library 

3.2) Coupling with a multiphysics library 

3.3) Parallelisation of the code on GPU and multiGPU 

Task 4: Validation and calibration: comparison of numerical results with experimental data

4.1) Numerical simulations to reproduce all physical tests 

4.2) Calibration of the numerical model 

Task 5: Survivability study of point-absorber WECs under extreme wave conditions 

5.1) Simulations of point-absorber WECs with mooring lines and PTO systems 

5.2) Simulations of point-absorber WECs with flexible structures and PTO systems 

Task 6: Simulation of existing prototypes under extreme wave conditions

Task 7: Preparation of deliverables

7.1) Software release 

7.2) Experimental database

Task 8: Dissemination