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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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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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Fadia Ticona Rollano, Thanh Toan Tran, Yi-Hsiang Yu, Gabriel García-Medina and Zhaoqing Yang
Industry-specific tools for analyzing and optimizing the design of wave energy converters (WECs) and associated power systems are essential to advancing marine renewable energy. This study aims to quantify the influence of phase information on the device...
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Jennifer van Rij, Yi-Hsiang Yu, Yi Guo and Ryan G. Coe
This article presents an example by which design loads for a wave energy converter (WEC) might be estimated through the various stages of the WEC design process. Unlike previous studies, this study considers structural loads, for which, an accurate asses...
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Yi-Hsiang Yu and Dale Jenne
A wave energy converter (WEC) system has the potential to convert the wave energy resource directly into the high-pressure flow that is needed by the desalination system to pump saltwater to the reverse-osmosis membrane and provide the required pressure ...
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