Article

Faedo, Nicolas and Bussi, Ulises and Pena-Sanchez, Yerai and Windt, Christian and Ringwood, John (2022) A Simple and Effective Excitation Force Estimator for Wave Energy Systems. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 13 (1). pp. 241-250. ISSN 1949-3029

Windt, Christian and Untrau, Alix and Davidson, Josh and Ransley, Edward J. and Ringwood, John (2021) Assessing the validity of regular wave theory in a short physical wave flume using particle image velocimetry. Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 121. ISSN 0894-1777

Garcia-Violini, Demian and Pena-Sanchez, Yerai and Faedo, Nicolas and Windt, Christian and Ferri, Francesco and Ringwood, John (2021) Experimental Implementation and Validation of a Broadband LTI Energy-Maximizing Control Strategy for the Wavestar Device. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 29 (6). pp. 2609-2621. ISSN 1063-6536

Ransley, Edward J. and Brown, S. A. and Hann, M. and Greaves, D.M. and Windt, Christian and Ringwood, John and Davidson, J. and Schmitt, P. and Yan, S. and Wang, J.X. and Ma, Q and Xie, Z. and Giorgi, G. (2021) Focused wave interactions with floating structures: A blind comparative study. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 14 (6). ISSN 1753-7789

Windt, Christian and Davidson, Josh and Ringwood, John (2021) Investigation of Turbulence Modeling for Point-Absorber-Type Wave Energy Converters. Energies, 14 (26). ISSN 1996-1073

Windt, Christian and Davidson, Josh and Ringwood, John (2021) Numerical analysis of the hydrodynamic scaling effects for the Wavestar wave energy converter. Journal of Fluids and Structure, 105. pp. 1-28.

Windt, Christian and Faedo, Nicolás and Penalba, Markel and Dias, Frederic and Ringwood, John (2021) Reactive control of wave energy devices – the modelling paradox. Applied Ocean Research, 109. pp. 1-15. ISSN 0141-1187

Schmitt, Pál and Windt, Christian and Ringwood, John (2020) Beyond VoF: alternative OpenFOAM solvers for numerical wave tanks. Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy, 6. pp. 277-292. ISSN 2198-6444

Ransley, Edward and Yan, Shiqiang and Brown, Scott and Hann, Martyn and Graham, David and Windt, Christian and Schmitt, Pál and Davidson, Josh and Ringwood, John and Musiedlak, Pierre-Henri and Wang, Jinghua and Wang, Junxian and Ma, Qingwei and Xie, Zhihua and Zhang, Ningbo and Zheng, Xing and Giorgi, Giuseppe and Chen, Hao and Lin, Zaibin and Qian, Ling and Ma, Zhihua and Bai, Wei and Chen, Qiang and Zang, Jun and Ding, Haoyu and Cheng, Lin and Zheng, Jinhai and Gu, Hanbin and Gong, Xiwu and Liu, Zhenghao and Zhuang, Yuan and Wan, Decheng and Bingham, Harry and Greaves, Deborah (2020) A Blind Comparative Study of Focused Wave Interactions with Floating Structures (CCP-WSI Blind Test Series 3). International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering, 30 (1). pp. 1-10. ISSN 1053-5381

Windt, Christian and Ringwood, John and Davidson, Josh and Schmitt, Pál (2020) CCP-WSI Blind Test Series 3: CFD-Based Numerical Wave Tank Experiments Employing an Impulse Source Wave Maker. International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering, 30 (1). pp. 28-35. ISSN 1053-5381

Pena-Sanchez, Yerai and Windt, Christian and Davidson, Josh and Ringwood, John V. (2020) A Critical Comparison of Excitation Force Estimators for Wave-Energy Devices. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 28 (6). pp. 2263-2275. ISSN 1063-6536

Windt, Christian and Davidson, Josh and Chandar, Dominic and Faedo, Nicolás and Ringwood, John (2020) Evaluation of the overset grid method for control studies of wave energy converters in OpenFOAM numerical wave tanks. Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy, 6. pp. 55-70. ISSN 2198-6444

Windt, Christian and Faedo, Nicolás and García-Violini, Demián and Peña-Sanchez, Yerai and Davidson, Josh and Ferri, Francesco and Ringwood, John (2020) Validation of a CFD-Based Numerical Wave Tank Model of the 1/20th Scale Wavestar Wave Energy Converter. Fluids, 5 (112). ISSN 2311-5521

Windt, Christian and Davidson, Josh and Ransley, Edward J. and Greaves, Deborah and Jakobsen, Morten and Kramer, Morten and Ringwood, John V. (2020) Validation of a CFD-based numerical wave tank model for the power production assessment of the wavestar ocean wave energy converter. Renewable Energy, 146. pp. 2499-2516. ISSN 0960-1481

Windt, Christian and Davidson, Josh and Schmitt, Pál and Ringwood, John V. (2020) Wave–structure interaction of wave energy converters: a sensitivity analysis. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering and Computational Mechanics, 173 (3). pp. 144-158. ISSN 1755-0777

Windt, Christian and Davidson, Josh and Schmitt, Pál and Ringwood, John (2019) Contribution to the CCP-WSI Blind Test Series 2: CFD-based numerical wave tank experiments employing an impulse source wave maker. European Tidal and Wave Energy Conference Proceedings (1265). ISSN 2706-6940

Kemper, Jost and Windt, Christian and Graf, Kai and Ringwood, John (2019) Development towards a nested hydrodynamic model for the numerical analysis of ocean wave energy systems. European Tidal and Wave Energy Conference Proceedings (1414). ISSN 2706-6940

Schmitt, Pál and Windt, Christian and Davidson, Josh and Ringwood, John and Whittaker, Trevor (2019) The Efficient Application of an Impulse Source Wavemaker to CFD Simulations. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 7 (3). p. 71. ISSN 2077-1312

Peña-Sanchez, Yerai and Faedo, Nicolás and Penalba, Markel and Giuseppe, Giorgi and Mérigaud, Alexis and Windt, Christian and Violini, Demian Garcia and LiGuo, Wang and Ringwood, John (2019) Finite-order hydrodynamic approximation by moment-matching (FOAMM) toolbox for wave energy applications. European Tidal and Wave Energy Conference Proceedings, 2019 (1448). ISSN 2706-6940

Windt, Christian and Davidson, Josh and Schmitt, Pál and Ringwood, John (2019) On the Assessment of Numerical Wave Makers in CFD Simulations. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 7 (2). p. 47. ISSN 2077-1312

Windt, Christian and Davidson, Josh and Ringwood, John (2018) High-fidelity numerical modelling of ocean wave energy systems: A review of computational fluid dynamics-based numerical wave tanks. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 93. pp. 610-630. ISSN 1364-0321

Penalba, Markel and Davidson, Josh and Windt, Christian and Ringwood, John (2018) A high-fidelity wave-to-wire simulation platform for wave energy converters: Coupled numerical wave tank and power take-off models. Applied Energy, 226. pp. 655-669. ISSN 0306-2619

Windt, Christian and Davidson, Josh and Schmitt, Pál and Ringwood, John (2017) Assessment of Numerical Wave Makers. Proceedings of the 12th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference 27th Aug -1st Sept 2017 (107). pp. 1-10. ISSN 2309-1983

Book Section

Windt, Christian and Faedo, Nicolás and Penalba, Markel and Ringwood, John (2019) Assessment of the Evaluation Framework for Energy Maximising Control Systems for the Wavestar Wave Energy Converter. In: 2019 American Control Conference (ACC). IEEE, pp. 4791-4796. ISBN 9781538679265

Windt, Christian and Ringwood, John and Davidson, Josh and Schmitt, Pál (2019) Contribution to the CCP-WSI Blind Test Series 3: Analysis of scaling effects of moored point-absorber wave energy converters in a CFD-based numerical wave tank. In: Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth (2019) International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference. International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE), pp. 3051-3058. ISBN 9781880653852

Windt, Christian and Davidson, Josh and Chandar, Dominic and Ringwood, John (2019) On the importance of advanced mesh motion methods for WEC experiments in CFD-based numerical wave tanks. In: Proceedings of the VIII International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering MARINE 2019. International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), pp. 145-156. ISBN 9788494919435

Windt, Christian and Davidson, Josh and Akram, Benazzou and Ringwood, John (2018) Performance assessment of the overset grid method for numerical wave tank experiments in the openfoam environment. In: ASME 2018 37th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. ASME. ISBN 9780791851319

Davidson, Josh and Windt, Christian and Giorgi, Giuseppe and Genest, Romain and Ringwood, John (2017) Evaluation of energy maximising control systems for wave energy converters using OpenFOAM. In: OpenFOAM - Selected papers from the 11th workshop. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 783319608464

Conference or Workshop Item

Guo, Bingyong and Elmoosa, Qusai and Windt, Christian and Ringwood, John (2021) Impact of nonlinear hydrodynamic modelling on geometric optimisation of a spherical heaving point absorber. In: 14th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, 5-9th Sept 2021, Plymouth, UK.

García-Violini, Demián and Farajvand, Mahiyeh and Windt, Christian and Grazioso, Valerio and Ringwood, John (2021) Passivity considerations in robust spectral-based controllers for wave energy converters. In: XIX Reunin de Trabajo en Procesamiento de la Informacin y Control, 3-5 November, San Juan Argentina.

Farajvand, Mahiyeh and García-Violini, Demián and Windt, Christian and Grazioso, Valerio and Ringwood, John (2021) Quantifying hydrodynamic model uncertainty for robust control of wave energy devices. In: 14th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, 5-9th Sept 2021, Plymouth, UK.

García-Violini, Demián and Peña-Sanchez, Yerai and Faedo, Nicolás and Windt, Christian and Ringwood, John (2020) LTI energy-maximising control for the Wave Star wave energy converter: identification, design, and implementation. In: IFAC World Congress 2020, 11-17 July 2020, Berlin, Germany.

Windt, Christian and Ringwood, John and Davidson, Josh and Ransley, Edward and Jakobsen, Morten and Kramer, Morten (2018) Validation of a CFD-based numerical wave tank of the Wavestar WEC. In: 3rd International Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore, 8-10 October 2018, Lisbon, Portugal.

Thesis

Windt, Christian (2020) High–fidelity numerical modelling of ocean wave energy converters. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.