Article

Faedo, Nicolas, Bussi, Ulises, Pena-Sanchez, Yerai, 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, Untrau, Alix, Davidson, Josh, 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, Pena-Sanchez, Yerai, Faedo, Nicolas, Windt, Christian, 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., Brown, S. A., Hann, M., Greaves, D.M., Windt, Christian, Ringwood, John, Davidson, J., Schmitt, P., Yan, S., Wang, J.X., Ma, Q, 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, 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, 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, Faedo, Nicolás, Penalba, Markel, 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, 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, Yan, Shiqiang, Brown, Scott, Hann, Martyn, Graham, David, Windt, Christian, Schmitt, Pál, Davidson, Josh, Ringwood, John, Musiedlak, Pierre-Henri, Wang, Jinghua, Wang, Junxian, Ma, Qingwei, Xie, Zhihua, Zhang, Ningbo, Zheng, Xing, Giorgi, Giuseppe, Chen, Hao, Lin, Zaibin, Qian, Ling, Ma, Zhihua, Bai, Wei, Chen, Qiang, Zang, Jun, Ding, Haoyu, Cheng, Lin, Zheng, Jinhai, Gu, Hanbin, Gong, Xiwu, Liu, Zhenghao, Zhuang, Yuan, Wan, Decheng, 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, Ringwood, John, 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, Windt, Christian, 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, Davidson, Josh, Chandar, Dominic, 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, Faedo, Nicolás, García-Violini, Demián, Peña-Sanchez, Yerai, Davidson, Josh, 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, Davidson, Josh, Ransley, Edward J., Greaves, Deborah, Jakobsen, Morten, 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, Davidson, Josh, 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, Davidson, Josh, 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, Windt, Christian, 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, Windt, Christian, Davidson, Josh, 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, Faedo, Nicolás, Penalba, Markel, Giuseppe, Giorgi, Mérigaud, Alexis, Windt, Christian, Violini, Demian Garcia, 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, Davidson, Josh, 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, 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, Davidson, Josh, 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, Davidson, Josh, 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, Faedo, Nicolás, 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, Ringwood, John, 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, Davidson, Josh, 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, Davidson, Josh, 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, Windt, Christian, Giorgi, Giuseppe, 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, Elmoosa, Qusai, 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, Farajvand, Mahiyeh, Windt, Christian, 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, García-Violini, Demián, Windt, Christian, 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, Peña-Sanchez, Yerai, Faedo, Nicolás, 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, Ringwood, John, Davidson, Josh, Ransley, Edward, 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.