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Methods for focussing and capturing wave energy
Supervisor: Richard Porter
Theme: Fluid Dynamics
The hydrodynamic theory of wave energy converters was developed over 25 years ago. Some remarkable results were discovered which
often allows one to easily assess the theoretical potential for success of any particular wave energy converter design. In practice,
engineering design makes it hard to realise the theoretical potential and so energy converter efficiency is often traded in for robustness. This project is broadly aimed at considering alternative ways of increasing wave energy efficiency, not by necessarily considering converter design but by using various structures to capture and focus energy. To do this, a variety of analytical and numerical tools will be developed which will hopefully lead to some powerful new methods and results.