On the capture width of wave energy converters

Applied Ocean Research

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 251-259

  Price, A A E ^a   Dent, C J ^b   Wallace, A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capture width; Control; Wave energy

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; DESIGN TOOL; PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; POWER CAPTURE; SEA STATE; SPECTRAL POWER; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS; WIDTH CONTROL;

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; OCEAN CURRENTS; WAVE POWER;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE POWER;

EID: 77953664283     PISSN: 01411187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apor.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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