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Sunny Kumar Poguluri and Yoon Hyeok Bae
The incorporation of machine learning (ML) has yielded substantial benefits in detecting nonlinear patterns across a wide range of applications, including offshore engineering. Existing ML works, specifically supervised regression models, have not underg...
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Carlos Sosa, Ismael Mariño-Tapia, Rodolfo Silva and Rodrigo Patiño
The numerical performance of a buoy-type wave energy converter (WEC) under regular wave conditions is described in this paper. The open-source computational fluid dynamics software OpenFOAM® was used to couple a grid for the solid body motion of the WEC,...
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Ali S. Haider, Kush Bubbar and Alan McCall
Achieving energy maximizing control of a Wave Energy Converter (WEC) not only needs a comprehensive dynamic model of the system?including nonlinear hydrodynamic effects and nonlinear characteristics of Power Take-Off (PTO)?but to treat the entire system ...
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Zhenquan Zhang, Jian Qin, Dengshuai Wang, Shuting Huang, Yanjun Liu and Gang Xue
In this paper, a variable damper is proposed to regulate the efficiency of a two-body wave energy converter (WEC) with mechanically driven power take-off (PTO). The variable damper introduces logic constraints into the WEC system, which can be translated...
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Spencer Funk, Ali Shahbaz Haider, Kush Bubbar and Brad Buckham
Mooring systems are a critical component of all floating wave energy converter (WEC) systems, yet the impact of amooring system on the WEC dynamics is often neglected during the initial assessment of candidate designs. The purpose of this study was to in...
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Rafael Pereira Maciel, Phelype Haron Oleinik, Elizaldo Domingues Dos Santos, Luiz Alberto Oliveira Rocha, Bianca Neves Machado, Mateus das Neves Gomes and Liércio André Isoldi
In this work, we conducted a numerical analysis of an oscillating water column (OWC) wave energy converter (WEC) device. The main objective of this research was to conduct a geometric evaluation of the device by defining an optimal configuration that max...
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Timma Flanagan, Meagan Wengrove and Bryson Robertson
Future nearshore wave energy converter (WEC) arrays will influence coastal wave and sediment dynamics, yet there are limited numerical methodologies to quantify their possible impacts. A novel coupled WEC-Wave numerical method was developed to quantify t...
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Luca Castellini, Federico Gallorini, Giacomo Alessandri, Erick Fernando Alves, Dan Montoya, Bhavana Mudigonda and Elisabetta Tedeschi
The power take-off (PTO) of a wave energy converter (WEC) converts mechanical power extracted from the waves into electrical power. Increasing PTO performance under several operational conditions is therefore essential to reduce the levelized cost of ene...
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Timothy Vervaet, Vasiliki Stratigaki, Francesco Ferri, Louis De Beule, Hendrik Claerbout, Bono De Witte, Marc Vantorre and Peter Troch
To offer point absorber wave energy converters (WECs) as a bankable product on the marine renewable energy market, multiple WECs will be installed together in an array configuration. The wave energy community (research and industrial) has identified the ...
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Timothy Vervaet, Vasiliki Stratigaki, Brecht De Backer, Kurt Stockman, Marc Vantorre and Peter Troch
Commercial wave energy exploitation will be realised by placing multiple wave energy converters (WECs) in an array configuration. A point-absorber WEC consists of a floating or submerged body to capture wave energy from different wave directions. This po...
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