Abstract
One of the essential steps towards a theoretical understanding of wave-energy devices is an analysis of the hydrodynamic interaction between the structures, their modes of motion and the wave field. Classically, linear potential theory has been used to study this interaction, which allows its decomposition into monochromatic radiation and diffraction problems. There are well-established numerical procedures for the solution of such problems (see Yeung, 1985), methods which, although exact in principle, can involve large lengthy computations, which may be prohibitively expensive, when the bodies comprise difficult geometries without symmetry. The methods also have the feature that they give no insight into the effect of changes in the geometry on the device’s hydrodynamic performance.
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