Improved hydrodynamic performance and survivability of ocean wave energy technologies using a high-fidelity simulation capability

利用我们环境中自然可用的可再生能源提高了我们能源生产的可持续性，同时为环境和人类健康提供了好处。波浪形式的海洋可再生能源是可用的最丰富的未开发可再生能源之一。加拿大的情况尤其如此，据估计，沿着200英里的界限，我们的资源是216千兆瓦，或者说大约是我国目前电力需求的2.5倍。有了这样的潜力，令人惊讶的是，加拿大目前还没有商业波浪发电站。这主要是因为与开采这种资源相关的重大工程挑战，包括开发能够在恶劣海洋环境中生存的高效转换器，获得对资源的详细估计和建模，以及整合到我们当前的电网中。鉴于极端的海洋环境，生存能力一直是一个重大的持续问题，尚未得到严格解决。最近的一个例子包括Ocean linx，这是一个高调的振荡水柱，在原型测试期间因大浪而下沉。

Harnessing the renewable energy naturally available in our environment improves the sustainability of our energy production, while providing benefits to the environment and human health. Ocean renewable energy in the form of waves is one of the most abundant untapped renewable energy sources available. This is particularly true for Canada, where it has been estimated that our resource is 216 GW along the 200 mile limit, or approximately 2.5 times our Nation's current electricity demands. With such potential, it is surprising that Canada currently has no commercial wave power sites. This is primarily due to the significant engineering challenges associated with extracting this resource, which include developing efficient converters that can survive the harsh ocean environment, obtaining detailed estimates and modelling of the resource, and integration into our current electrical grid. Given the extreme ocean environment, survivability has been a significant ongoing issue that has not been rigorously addressed. A recent example includes the Oceanlinx, a high profile oscillating water column that sank during prototype testing due to a large wave.