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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Ocean Wave Energy"”.
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High–fidelity numerical modelling of ocean wave energy converters
The exploitation of ocean wave energy as a renewable energy source is a challenging task. However, once economically viable, wave energy can make a significant contribution to the global renewable energy mix and, thereby, aid the fight against climate change. To support this action, researchers and …
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Optimal configuration of large arrays of floating bodies for ocean wave energy extraction
Ocean wave energy is a large, and mostly untapped potential source of renewable energy worldwide. The scope of engineering solutions for harvesting wave energy is vast, ranging from wave-induced oscillating bodies, to overtopping devices and oscillating water columns. One particularly interesting …
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Boat-shaped Buoy Optimization of an Ocean Wave Energy Converter Using Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms
… absorber is one of the most popular types of ocean wave energy converter (WEC) that harvests energy from the ocean. Often such a WEC is deployed in an ocean location with tidal currents or ocean streams, or serves as a mobile platform to power the blue economy. The shape of the floating body, …
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Performance Analysis and Tank Test Validation of a Hybrid Wave-Current Energy Converter with a Single Power Takeoff
Marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) energy, including ocean waves, tidal current, ocean current and river current, has been recognized as a promising power source due to its full-day availability and high energy potential. At this stage, ocean current energy, tidal energy and ocean wave energy are …
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Control of Vibration Systems with Mechanical Motion Rectifier and their Applications to Vehicle Suspension and Ocean Energy Harvester
… control applications: vehicle suspension and ocean wave energy converter. It develops control methods for both systems with simplified modeling setup, then followed by the application of a novel mechanical motion rectifier (MMR) gearbox that uses mechanical one-way clutches in both systems. …
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Dynamic system design optimization of wave energy converters utilizing direct transcription
… are then demonstrated on the design of a wave energy converter, a device that captures energy present in ocean waves. This system is of particular interest since a successful design hinges on exploiting the natural dynamics of the interaction between the ocean waves and the physical wave …
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Co-design Investigation and Optimization of an Oscillating-Surge Wave Energy Converter
Ocean wave energy has the potential to play a crucial role in the shift to renewable energy. In order to improve wave energy conversion techniques, a recognition of the sub-optimal nature of traditional sequential design processes due to the interconnectedness of subsystems such as the geometry, …
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Air piston approach to wave power generation
… calculated that, by tapping just 0.2% of the energy produced by the world's oceans we can provide for all the worlds current energy needs. It is generally accepted that a combination of traditional energy production methods, (oil, coal, gas, nuclear) mixed with a combination of renewable …
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Fluid-Structure Interaction Modeling of a Flexible-Inflatable Heaving Wave Energy Converter Through Generalized Modes
… point absorber, one of the most popular types of ocean wave energy converter (WEC), usually consists of a rigid body buoy that can be efficiently modeled using existing WEC simulation tools. However, new wave energy technologies have looked to utilize flexible buoy structures to decrease costs, …
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Implementation and Demonstration of a Time Domain Modeling Tool for Floating Oscillating Water Columns
Renewable energy is a critical component in combating climate change. Ocean wave energy is a source of renewable energy that can be harvested using Wave Energy Converters (WECs). One such WEC is the floating Oscillating Water Column (OWC), which has been successfully field tested and warrants …
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Conceptual design of wave energy converters
… presenting a vast opportunity as a renewable energy resource, ocean wave energy has yet to gain commercial success due to the design space being divergent. To facilitate convergence, this dissertation has proposed a method using the mechanical circuit framework to transform a linear …
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Advanced controls for floating wind turbines
… spearhead the rapid growth of the offshore wind energy sector and allow the exploration of vast high quality wind resources over coastal and offshore areas with intermediate and large water depths. This generates the need for a new generation of Wind Turbine control systems that take into account …
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Numerical Analysis and Parameter Optimization of Portable Oscillating-Body Wave Energy Converters
As a clean, abundant, and renewable source of energy with a strategic location in close proximity to global population regions, ocean wave energy shows major promise. Although much wave energy converter development has focused on large-scale power generation, there is also increasing interest in …
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Optimal control and model reduction for wave energy systems: A moment-based approach
… limits, much attention has turned to renewable energy sources in recent years. Ocean wave energy is a massive and untapped resource, which can make a valuable contribution towards a sustainable, global, energy mix. Despite the fact that ocean waves constitute a vast resource, wave energy …
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Real-time Forecasting and Control for Oscillating Wave Energy Devices
Ocean wave energy represents a signi�cant resource of renewable energy and can make an important contribution to the development of a more sustainable solution in support of the contemporary society, which is becoming more and more energy intensive. A perspective is given on the benefi�ts that wave …
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Multifunctional Materials for Energy Harvesting and Sensing
… behavior of multifunctional materials for energy conversion. Multifunctional materials exhibit two or more functional properties, such as electrical, thermal, magnetic etc. In this dissertation, the emphasis is on understanding the principles for energy conversion from one domain to another …
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Design, Analysis and Testing of a Self-reactive Wave Energy Point Absorber with Mechanical Power Take-off
Ocean wave as a renewable energy source possesses great potential for solving the world energy crisis and benefit human beings. The total theoretical potential wave power on the ocean-facing coastlines of the world is around 30,000 TWh, although cannot all be adopted for generating electricity, the …
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Hydrodynamic Design Optimization and Wave Tank Testing of Self-Reacting Two-Body Wave Energy Converter
As worldwide energy consumption continues to increase, so does the demand for renewable energy sources. The total available wave energy resource for the United States alone is 2,640 TWh/yr; nearly two thirds of the 4,000 TWh of electricity used in the United States each year. It is estimated that …