A modelling methodology for multi-body systems with application to wave-energy devices

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 1381-1387

  Ó'Catháin, Mícheál ^a   Leira, Bernt J ^b   Ringwood, John V ^a   Gilloteaux, Jean Christophe ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Marine renewable energy; Modelling for control; Multi body; Newton Euler equations; Time domain

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LOADS; ENERGY CONVERSION; EULER EQUATIONS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MOORING; NEON;

ACTIVE LOADS; BODY SYSTEMS; CONSTRAINT FORCES; CONTROL DESIGNS; CONTROL SUB-SYSTEM; ENERGY DEVICES; HYDRODYNAMIC LOADS; LINEAR POTENTIAL THEORY; MARINE SYSTEMS; MODEL BASED CONTROL (MBC); MULTI-BODY; MULTI-BODY SYSTEM (MBS); MULTI-BODY SYSTEMS (MBS); NEWTON-EULER EQUATIONS; NON-LINEARITIES; OPERATIONAL FREQUENCIES; RIGID BODY DYNAMICS; TIME DOMAIN (OCT); TRANSIENT RESPONSE CHARACTERISTICS;

FLUID MECHANICS;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; DESIGN; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODELING; MOORING SYSTEM; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; WAVE ENERGY;

EID: 48449092814     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2008.05.005     Document Type: Article

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