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Jian Qin, Zhenquan Zhang, Xuening Song, Shuting Huang, Yanjun Liu and Gang Xue
In order to enhance the power generation efficiency and reliability of wave energy converters (WECs), an enclosed inertial WEC with a magnetic nonlinear stiffness mechanism (nonlinear EIWEC) is proposed in this paper. A mathematical model of the nonlinea...
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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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Yuan Zhang, Xuanyu Chen, Peng Xu, Xizeng Zhao, Ould el Moctar and Changqing Jiang
The development and utilization of wave energy, heralded as a potential leading source of clean energy worldwide, have garnered considerable attention from the global research community. Among the diverse array of wave energy converters (WECs), the raft-...
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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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Liang Sun, Zewang Yang, Mingsheng Chen and Fen Li
To investigate the overtopping and slamming phenomena that occur in the interactions between waves and oscillating surge wave energy converters (OSWECs), a two-dimensional numerical wave flume was established using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) soft...
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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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Mauro Bonfanti and Giuseppe Giorgi
Wave energy converter (WEC) optimization often underlines incremental and iterative approaches that result in suboptimal solutions, since all the elements that concur with a techno-economical evaluation are optimized separately due to computation constra...
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Moisés Brito, Francisco Bernardo, Maria G. Neves, Diogo R. C. B. Neves, Alejandro J. C. Crespo and José M. Domínguez
A 2D numerical investigation of the power absorption of a constrained wave energy hyperbaric converter (WEHC) under full-scale sea wave conditions is presented. A fully non-linear numerical model DualSPHysics, based on the coupling of a smoothed particle...
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Xuedong Shao, Bowen Zheng, Zhenhao Luo and Zhenghe Song
As off-road vehicles, in addition to field transportation, another vital function of agricultural tractors is to provide power for field machinery. Therefore, the dynamic performance of the power take-off (PTO) driveline directly affects the field reliab...
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Sanghwan Heo, Weoncheol Koo and Moo-Hyun Kim
A Wavestar-type Wave Energy Converter (WEC) on an elastic foundation structure was investigated using an author-developed coupled dynamic analysis computer program. The program included an elastic foundation structure composed of beam elements, a multi-b...
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