Energy balance analysis for an oscillating water column wave energy converter

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue , 2012, Pages 26-33

  Fleming, Alan ^a   Penesis, Irene ^a   MacFarlane, Gregor ^a   Bose, Neil ^a   Denniss, Tom ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b Oceanlinx   (Australia)

Author keywords

Energy balance; Oscillating water column; Particle imaging velocimetry; Phase averaging; Wave energy converter

Indexed keywords

ENERGY BALANCE ANALYSIS; ENERGY SOURCE; ENERGY TRANSFER PROCESS; HYDRAULIC WORKS; INCOMING ENERGY; INTERMEDIATE STORAGE; LINEAR WAVE THEORY; MODEL SCALE; MONOCHROMATIC WAVE; ORIFICE PLATE; OSCILLATING WATER COLUMN; PARTICLE IMAGING VELOCIMETRY; PHASE-AVERAGING; VELOCITY FIELD; WATER INFLOWS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS;

ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY TRANSFER; ORIFICES; TAKEOFF; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY;

WAVE POWER;

ENERGY BALANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOMETRY; INFLOW; KINETIC ENERGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OSCILLATION; VORTICITY; WATER COLUMN; WATER FLOW; WAVE ENERGY;

EID: 84865736298     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2012.07.002     Document Type: Article

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