Use of Forward Scattering Particle Image Velocimetry to Quantify a Flow Field Near a Fully Submerged Tension Leg Platform in the Presence of Waves

Abstract

Fully Submerged platforms have the potential to provide the US navy with marine renewable energy systems that could be deployable throughout the world's oceans, avoid extreme mooring loads in storms and focus surface wave energy onto power take-off components in mild wave conditions. The deployment process being developed for a full scale design is particularly well suited for littoral regions with silt or sand sea floors. A variable depth platform is tested in a wave tank and relations between platform depth, wave parameters and wave energy density have been developed. Optimal depths for wave tuning have ranged from 2 to 4 times the incident wave height.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA560575

Entities

People

  • Michael Raftery

Organizations

  • Stevens Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Energy
  • Energy Systems
  • Flow
  • Flow Fields
  • Forward Scattering
  • Load Cells
  • Particle Image Velocimetry
  • Particles
  • Renewable Energy
  • Scattering
  • Three Dimensional
  • Wave Power
  • Waveforms
  • Waves

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Marine Hydrodynamics