Measurements of overtopping flow time series on the Wave Dragon, wave energy converter

Renewable Energy

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 711-717

  Tedd, James ^a   Peter Kofoed, Jens ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Field measurement; Overtopping; Time series; Wave Dragon

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; FLOW SIMULATION; HYDRAULIC MACHINERY; HYDRAULIC MOTORS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRANSDUCERS; WAVE POWER;

DENMARK; FIELD MEASUREMENT; HYDRO TURBINES; INLAND SEAS; MEASURED DATUM; ON TIMES; OVERTOPPING; OVERTOPPING FLOWS; REAL SEAS; SEA SURFACES; SIMULATED FLOWS; SIMULATION ALGORITHMS; TIME SERIES; WAVE DRAGON; WAVE DRAGONS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

FIELD METHOD; FLOW MODELING; MEASUREMENT METHOD; TIME SERIES; TURBINE; WAVE POWER;

EID: 54149096708     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2008.04.036     Document Type: Article

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