Analysis of a two-body floating wave energy converter with particular focus on the effects of power take off and mooring systems on energy capture

Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages 317-328

  Muliawan, Made Jaya ^a   Gao, Zhen ^a   Moan, Torgeir ^a   Babarit, Aurelien ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b LABORATOIRE DE MÉCANIQUE DES FLUIDES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL OPERATION; AXISYMMETRIC; ENERGY CAPTURE; FLOATING WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS; HYDRODYNAMIC INTERACTION; HYDRODYNAMIC LOADS; IRREGULAR WAVES; LINEAR DAMPING; MOORING SYSTEM; MULTI BODY SYSTEMS; OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS; POWER CAPTURE; TIME DOMAIN SIMULATION TOOLS;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; HYDRODYNAMICS; MOORING; OCEANOGRAPHY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

EID: 84855795344     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2011-49135     Document Type: Conference Paper

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