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 deliverable, a numerical model of the Pentland Firth has been developed using an ADCIRC DG code. Bathymetry data has been taken from Seazone and tidal boundary data taken from le Provost.The tidal dynamics of the Pentland Firth and surrounding area of the Orkney Isles is extremely complex. In developing the model a pragmatic approach of not trying to model every detail of the flow through the Orkney Isles butinstead focusing on the modelling of the tidal dynamics in the main Pentland Firth.The model has been compared to available measurements and there is good agreement on both the amplitude and phase of water level between measurement and model
This deliverable, a numerical model of the Pentland Firth has been developed using an ADCIRC DG code. Bathymetry data has been taken from Seazone and tidal boundary data taken from le Provost.The tidal dynamics of the Pentland Firth and surrounding area of the Orkney Isles is extremely complex. In developing the model a pragmatic approach of not trying to model every detail of the flow through the Orkney Isles butinstead focusing on the modelling of the tidal dynamics in the main Pentland Firth.The model has been compared to available measurements and there is good agreement on both the amplitude and phase of water level between measurement and model