COLORADO SPRINGS - (United States) - 17/02/2011- 3B Tips - A team of researchers from the U.S. Air Force Academy 's Aeronautics Laboratory (U.S. FAA) conducted by Dr. . Stefan Siegel recently announced it had reached operate more than 99% of energy contained in a simulation of ocean wave pool and it was preparing to move to the next experimental stage. This research on the effectiveness of energy recovery is part of a program funded by the National Science Foundation intended to develop the first wave energy converter completely submerged generating electricity. The U.S. FAA has initiated this project since the fall of 2008 convinced that the decades of experience accumulated by the professors of aeronautics department in fluid dynamics for various military aircraft and spacecraft NASA could well be useful for create a wave energy converter performance. Performance, that is to say the rate of energy recovered, being in fact the main problem of wave energy converters currently being tested around the world. Dr. Stefan Siegel confirmed that the results obtained during the initial simulation experiments had clearly demonstrated the ability to recover 95% of wave energy, capacity that was then brought in a second experimental phase, 99% . "There are enough good reasons to believe that when we move to a larger scale simulation, the results will be similar" he said.
The research in both computer science and physics were held in the offices of the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, the only place that provides access to multiple environments search simultaneously. "It's really one of the great benefits of working in this environment" , said Dr. Siegel "because we have access to an exceptional ability to computing capabilities, and also a laboratory which provides excellent experimental facilities. "
Academy cadets are more inclined to join in experimental research on the energy waves that "matter" is now on the agenda of the current semester. The current contract for three-year grant from the NSF will end in September 2011, when the Department Energy intends to grant an extension of $ 400 000 to complete two test campaigns with scale models 1 / 10 to Offshore Technology Research Center of Texas A & M University . This research center has one of the largest wave pools in the world, which is expected to conduct experiments on a wave pattern much larger and potentially allow the testing of three wave energy converters simultaneously .
This funding is also expected to complete the project close to the stage of industrial manufacture.
No date is set for it.
Article: Francis ROUSSEAU
Sources: Linked Sites. Photos. 1 Dr. Stefan Siegel and wave energy converter © U.S. AFA / Rachel Boettcher
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