The Offshore Floating Type Wave Power Device "Mighty Whale" Open Sea Tests - Performance of The Prototype

Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference

Volumn 12, Issue , 2002, Pages 595-600

  Osawa, Hiroyuki ^a   Washio, Yukihisa ^a   Ogata, Teruhisa ^a   Tsuritani, Yasusi ^a   Nagata, Yoshinori ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b IHI CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Open sea tests; Response of floating body motion; Wave energy; Wave height dissipation; Wave power devices

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISSIPATION; FLOATING POWER PLANTS; OFFSHORE POWER PLANTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STORMS; TELEMETERING; TESTING; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

OPEN SEA TESTS; RESPONSE OF FLOATING BODY MOTION; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE HEIGHT DISSIPATION; WAVE POWER DEVICES;

WAVE POWER;

EID: 0942305010     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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