Numerical modelling of the sloped ips buoy wave energy converter

Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 396-402

  Payne, Grégory S ^a   Taylor, Jamie R M ^a   Parkin, Penny ^a   Salter, Stephen H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Experimental measurements; Numerical modelling; WAMIT; Wave energy

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMPING; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); POWER TAKEOFFS; WATER WAVES;

FREE-FLOATING CONFIGURATIONS; WAVE ENERGY;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

EID: 36749089404     PISSN: 10986189     EISSN: 15551792     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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