Objetivos específicos

DEFINITION AND OBJECTIVES

The present research group aims to provide maximum value to the integral sustainability (functional, environmental and energetic-economic) of the energy generation systems by means of marine renewable sources and their adaptability and influence on climate change. To this end, 5 partial objectives are broken down, from which the corresponding work plan is established:

Specific Objective 1: Implementation of experimental campaigns to be carried out in the wave flume (12.5 m long, 0.6 m wide and 0.7 m high) at the Department of Energy Engineering of the UPV/EHU.

Wave tank of the Energy Engineering Department.

Objetivos específico 2

Specific Objective 2: Development of new artificial neural network structures for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) as a tool to substantially improve the performance of the usual fluid dynamic environments for the design and optimization of flow control systems in offshore wind turbines.

Typical flow control systems in vertical axis wind turbines. Gurney Falp (left) and VGs in an airfoil (right).

Objetivos específico 3

Specific Objective 3: Development of a computational model that facilitates the exhaustive analysis of the overflow process in fixed and floating structures, as well as of the reflection phenomenon on passive wave energy extinction devices, allowing wide flexibility in terms of the geometry under study.

Experimental arrangement for "overtopping" analysis on cylindrical structures.

Objetivos específico 4

Specific Objective 4: Improve the performance of a PTO coupled to an OWC device by using computational techniques to obtain the optimal operating point, depending on its geometrical parameters and sea state parameters, validation of a CFD model of a Wells turbine type PTO with real data (Mutriku Plant).

1:36 scale model of a chamber of the Mutriku OWC plant.

Objetivos específico 5

Specific Objective 5: Implementation of a position control system based on the Kalman estimator to optimize the energetic exploitation of the movement of the generator mass inside the hull, and the fabrication of the floating prototype with environmentally sustainable materials.