Oscillating Water Column (OWC) is one type of promising wave energy devices due to its obvious advantage over many other wave energy converters: no moving component in sea water. Two types of OWCs (bottom-fixed and floating) have been widely investigated, and the bottom-fixed OWCs have been very successful in several practical applications. Recently, the proposal of massive wave energy producti...

A model different from the traditional WEC, known as flexible wave energy converter (fWEC), is numerically modeled in this paper. The fWEC believed to be more efficient and has a greater range of operation when compared with conventionally rigid WEC. fully coupled fluid–structure interaction (FSI) tool developed for research performed This able accommodate dynamic between membrane structure sur...