WEC Extreme Conditions Modeling Sandia Summer Intern 2017 Report
This report contains work completed by a group of student interns during the summer of 2017. Under the guidance of Ryan Coe, Aubrey Eckert-Gallup, and Nevin Martin, a series of interrelated projects were completed on topics relating to extreme response and survival analysis of wave energy converters (WECs). Jarred Canning studied long-term design response analysis methods for WECs. Sam Edwards studied how variation in the selection of an environmental contour affects the characterization of WEC response in extreme conditions. Sam also led the integration of various components of this report and overall editing. Tyler Esterly produced a catalog of analyses for different ocean sites. Bibiana Seng studied clustering analyses for comparing the wave environments of different ocean sites. Lori Smith performed a comparison between analyses conducted using spectral wave data and analyses using deterministic time-domain wave data. William ("Zach") Stuart studied the sensitivity and convergence of environmental contour methods.