Effect of non-ideal power take-off on the energy absorption of a reactively controlled one degree of freedom wave energy converter

Applied Ocean Research

Volumn 48, Issue , 2014, Pages 236-243

  Genest, Romain ^a   Bonnefoy, Félicien ^a   Clément, Alain H ^a   Babarit, Aurélien ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Reactive control; Wave energy converter

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EFFICIENCY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; POWER TAKEOFFS;

CONTROL PERFORMANCE; CONTROL STRATEGIES; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; EQUATION OF MOTION; MOTION CONSTRAINTS; REACTIVE CONTROL; WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS; WESTERN ATLANTIC;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

CONTROL SYSTEM; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EQUATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN WAVE; WAVE ENERGY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84908345766     PISSN: 01411187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apor.2014.09.001     Document Type: Article

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