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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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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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Kun Liu, Haizhi Liang, Jingpin Ou, Jiawei Ye and Dongjiao Wang
Heave plates are widely used for improving the sea keeping performance of ocean structures. In this paper, a novel tuned heave plate energy harvesting system (THPEH) is presented for the motion suppression and energy harvesting of a semi-submersible plat...
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Wei Shi, Jinghui Li, Constantine Michailides, Mingsheng Chen, Shuaishuai Wang and Xin Li
To increase the utilization of wave and other renewable energy resources, an integrated system consisting of an offshore wind turbine and a wave energy converter (WEC) could be used to harvest the potential energy. In this study, a dimensionless optimiza...
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Yao Liu, Yong-Hwan Cho, Norimi Mizutani and Tomoaki Nakamura
This paper studied the resonant behaviors of a bottom-hinged oscillating wave surge converter (OWSC) as well as the relationship of resonance with the response and capture width ratio (CWR). The time-domain dynamic equation of an OWSC in shallow water ba...
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Yanwei Li, Nianxin Ren, Xiang Li and Jinping Ou
A novel modular floating structure (MFS) system moored by tension legs was proposed, which is composed of hexagonal floating modules, floating artificial reefs and wave energy converters (WECs). The integration of floating artificial reefs and WECs into ...
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Mohd Afifi Jusoh, Zulkifli Mohd Yusop, Aliashim Albani, Muhamad Zalani Daud and Mohd Zamri Ibrahim
Hydraulic power take-off (HPTO) is considered to be one of the most effective power take-off schemes for wave energy conversion systems (WECs). The HPTO unit can be constructed using standard hydraulic components that are readily available from the hydra...
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Dan Yu, Keyi Wang, Yeqing Jin, Fankai Kong, Hailong Chen and Can Yang
In this work, the hydrodynamic performance of a novel wave energy converter (WEC) configuration which combines a moonpool platform and a javelin floating buoy, called the moonpool?javelin wave energy converter (MJWEC), was studied by semianalytical, comp...
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