Research Article

Development of a Three-Dimensional Fully Nonlinear Potential Numerical Wave Tank for a Heaving Buoy Wave Energy Converter

Table 1

Frequency components of the buoy displacement for various wave steepness conditions.

Z ()H/λ
T/T0 = 0.8T/T0 = 1.0T/T0 = 1.4
1/201/301/401/501/201/301/401/501/201/301/401/50

0th0.0570.0400.0300.0240.0900.0820.0670.0550.0510.0370.0280.023
1st0.2360.2470.2510.2521.3711.4871.5251.5420.8260.8490.8590.863
2nd0.0020.0020.0010.0010.0650.0480.0370.0300.1040.0730.0560.045