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Originally posted by Jukes
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This article from the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is superb. It’s not just that CWE have been using the facility but that they have used its capacity to a very significant extent. The photograph at the end gives the evidence. The fine resolution of detail of water movement over the BA is very precise, together with the re-radiation of a small fraction of the incident swell (the circular waves moving upwards in the diagram). It indicates that the sample points in their 3-D numerical analysis were very close and therefore very large in number. That takes much computing power. CWE has taken an opportunity afforded to them to great advantage. It adds confidence that they know what they are doing. Their theoretical modelling capacities should be highly prized. (Keep those staffers!) With that kind of experience they should also be able to predict the energy absorption effect of any kind of shaped array, not necessarily linear. (Pawsey was a noted Australian radio astronomer. The absorption of water wave energy by BAs is directly analogous to radio waves incident on a dispersed radio antenna array. That problem was solved a few decades ago.) Juke
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CWE is not the only Western Australian wave energy company using the Super Computer.https://www.pawsey.org.au/case-stud...stem-flexible-membrane-performance-modelling/
