ISWEC: Design of a prototype model with gyroscope

2009 International Conference on Clean Electrical Power, ICCEP 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 57-63

  Bracco, G ^a   Giorcelli, E ^a   Mattiazzo, G ^a   Pastorelli, M ^a   Taylor, J ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gyroscope; Point absorber; Wave energy converter; Wave power

Indexed keywords

DESIGN PROCESS; LINEARIZED MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TOOLS; NON-LINEAR MODEL; OCEAN WAVES; POINT ABSORBER; PROTOTYPE MODELS; UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH; WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER; WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS; WAVE TANK;

ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; GYROSCOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY; WATER WAVES; WAVE POWER;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

EID: 70350707998     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCEP.2009.5212081     Document Type: Conference Paper

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