The Performance Assessment of Wave and Tidal Array Systems (PerAWaT) project, launched in October 2009 with £8m of ETI investment.The project delivered validated, commercial software tools capable of significantly reducing the levels of uncertainty associated with predicting the energy yield of major wave and tidal stream energy arrays. It also produced information that will help reduce commercial risk of future large scale wave and tidal array developments.
This report outlines the methodologies and approach adopted in the development of the core modules of the wave farm model software package. It coversSection 1: Software architectureSection 2: Wave inputs to the simulationSection 3: Core hydrodynamic modelling algorithms behind the simulationSection 4: Core algorithms behind the farm optimisation moduleSection 5: A set ofrepresentative scenarios to assess the applicability of the models and the key steps for the development and implementation of the software
This report outlines the methodologies and approach adopted in the development of the core modules of the wave farm model software package. It coversSection 1: Software architectureSection 2: Wave inputs to the simulationSection 3: Core hydrodynamic modelling algorithms behind the simulationSection 4: Core algorithms behind the farm optimisation moduleSection 5: A set ofrepresentative scenarios to assess the applicability of the models and the key steps for the development and implementation of the software