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Laboratory Experiments for Highly Nonlinear WEC-Wave Conditions
Department of Energy —
This document describes the experiments carried out in December 2019 and February-March 2020 in the Directional Wave Basin at the O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research... -
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MASK2B - Initial Results from Wave Tank Test of Closed-Loop WEC Control
Department of Energy —
This dataset covers the MASK2B wave tank experiment focused on a more complete study of one degree of freedom (1DOF) control of the WEC was considered, including... -
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Direct-Drive Electrical Generator and PTO System for Flap-type Wave Energy Converters
Department of Energy —
Project and generator specifications and initial prototype test data for flap-type wave energy converters (WEC) -
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Advanced Control Systems for Wave Energy Converters
Department of Energy —
This submission contains several papers, a final report, descriptions of a theoretical framework for two types of control systems, and descriptions of eight real-time... -
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Advanced WEC Dynamics and Controls, Test 1
Department of Energy —
Numerous studies have shown that advanced control of a wave energy converter's (WEC's) power take off (PTO) can provide significant increases (on the order of... -
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Lift Equivalence and Cancellation for Airfoil Surge-Pitch-Plunge Oscillations
Department of Energy —
A NACA 0018 airfoil in freestream velocity is oscillated in longitudinal, transverse, and angle-of-attack directions with respect to the freestream velocity, known as... -
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M3 Wave DMP/APEX WEC Final Technical Report
Department of Energy —
This project successfully developed methods for numerical modeling of sediment transport phenomena around rigid objects resting on or near the ocean floor. These... -
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Experimental Testing of a Floating Oscillating Surge Wave Energy Converter at Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory
Department of Energy —
In order to generate a public data set that can be used to validate Wave Energy Converter (WEC) numerical codes, such as WEC-Sim, Sandia National Laboratories led an...