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    • WEC-Sim Wave Energy Converter Simulator

    Metadata Updated: March 21, 2026

    WEC-Sim (Wave Energy Converter SIMulator) is an open-source wave energy converter (WEC) simulation tool.

    The code is developed in MATLAB/SIMULINK using the multi-body dynamics solver SimMechanics. WEC-Sim has the ability to model devices that are comprised of rigid bodies, power-take-off systems, and mooring systems. Simulations are performed in the time-domain by solving the governing WEC equations of motion in 6 degrees-of-freedom. The WEC-Sim project is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Wind and Water Power Technologies Office and the code development effort is a collaboration between the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL).

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Metadata Created Date January 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date March 21, 2026

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    Harvested from OpenEI data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date January 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date March 21, 2026
    Publisher National Renewable Energy Laboratory
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.openei.org/submissions/8145
    Data First Published 2016-03-15T16:20:59Z
    Data Last Modified 2026-03-12T18:10:31Z
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 019:20
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    Metadata Catalog ID https://openei.org/data.json
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    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Harvest Object Id 4d28cd49-272c-449a-9e20-13c70423b2fe
    Harvest Source Id 7cbf9085-0290-4e9f-bec1-91653baeddfd
    Harvest Source Title OpenEI data.json
    Homepage URL https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/39
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    Program Code 019:009, 019:010
    Projectnumber GO28308
    Projecttitle Software: WEC-Sim (Wave Energy Converter - SIMulator)
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash ded74eb0b57b5ca1e641cc686774ce1b1a38decc1469f4ab0465c8c9b0bc9575
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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