Shape optimisation of floating wave energy converters for a specified wave energy spectrum

Renewable Energy

Volumn 71, Issue , 2014, Pages 208-220

  Goggins, Jamie ^a,b   Finnegan, William ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b Marine Renewable Energy Ireland (MaREI) Research Centre   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Hydrodynamic analysis; Optimisation; Structural geometric configuration; Wave energy converter

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; OCEANOGRAPHY; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; WATER WAVES;

FLOATING WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS; GEOMETRIC CONFIGURATIONS; HYDRODYNAMIC ANALYSIS; OPTIMISATIONS; OPTIMUM CONFIGURATIONS; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS; WAVE ENERGY SPECTRA;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FLOATING STRUCTURE; MARINE TECHNOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; WAVE ENERGY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; IRELAND;

HARNESS;

EID: 84902104641     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2014.05.022     Document Type: Article

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