The Labs have developed and released open source codes (e.g. WEC-Sim) that are readily used by the wave energy community and require basic maintenance to support the growing user community. Additionally, the Labs are involved in several international efforts (i.e. international community on WEC model verification and validation, control competition and standards development) which require the continued Lab support in order to be successful. This project supports development and maintenance of DOE WPTO funded open sources codes (e.g. WEC-Sim), in addition to supporting international collaborations through the IEA OES Task 10 code validation, and IEC TC 114 standards development. In FY21, additional efforts also include an overhaul maintenance/clean-up of WEC-Sim and open-source Boundary Element Method (BEM) code improvement.
