A linearized model for estimating the performance of submerged resonant wave energy converters

Pasquale Filianoti and Sergio M. Camporeale

Renewable Energy, 2008, vol. 33, issue 4, 631-641

Abstract: A realistic performance analysis of oscillating water column wave energy converters (WECs) addresses to a set of non-linear differential equations that need to be integrated in time, by using a stochastic approach, under the hypothesis of random wind-generated sea waves, for all the sea states which characterize the location of the system. Non-linearities of the differential equations have several origins: •minor and major losses of the unsteady flow of water and air;•compressibility of air and heat exchange with the walls of the air chamber;•non-linear characteristics of the turbine.

Keywords: Wave energy; Wells turbine; Stochastic methods; Wave energy converters (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2007.03.018

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