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View article: Enabling the Ocean Internet of Things with Renewable Marine Energy
Enabling the Ocean Internet of Things with Renewable Marine Energy Open
Marine renewable energy can play an integral role in reducing the cost and complexity of collecting data from the oceans and enhancing its exploitation. The processing and transmission of data at sea may be modelled as an 'internet of thin…
View article: New Developments and Capabilities Within WEC-Sim
New Developments and Capabilities Within WEC-Sim Open
WEC-Sim is an open-source software for simulating wave energy converters and has been actively developed and applied since its initial release in 2014 to simulate a wide variety of device archetypes. WEC-Sim is developed jointly by the Nat…
View article: Next-Generation Marine Energy Software Needs Assessment
Next-Generation Marine Energy Software Needs Assessment Open
Over the past decade the marine energy industry has continued to grow and evolve, with new concepts and technologies constantly being pursued. Additionally, the field of computing is vastly different today than it was five or ten years ago…
View article: Next-Generation Marine Energy Software Needs Assessment
Next-Generation Marine Energy Software Needs Assessment Open
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Water Power Technologies Office’s (WPTO) initial investment in marine energy software was driven by needs identified over a decade ago. WPTO-funded research was first launched because of a U.S. congressi…
View article: Recent Developments in the WEC-Sim Open-Source Design Tool: Preprint
Recent Developments in the WEC-Sim Open-Source Design Tool: Preprint Open
WEC-Sim (Wave Energy Converter SIMulator) is an open-source code for simulating wave energy converters, which has been actively developed and applied to simulate a wide variety of device archetypes and has become a popular tool since its i…
View article: Introducing PRIMRE's MRE Software Knowledge Hub.
Introducing PRIMRE's MRE Software Knowledge Hub. Open
Code Catalog is a searchable online platform for discovery of useful (open-source or commercial) software packages, tools, codes, and other software products. To gather information about the existing MRE software landscape, a software surv…
View article: Introducing PRIMRE's MRE Software Knowledge Hub.
Introducing PRIMRE's MRE Software Knowledge Hub. Open
Code Catalog is a searchable online platform for discovery of useful (open-source or commercial) software packages, tools, codes, and other software products. To gather information about the existing MRE software landscape, a software surv…
View article: WEC-Sim/WEC-Sim: WEC-Sim v4.2
WEC-Sim/WEC-Sim: WEC-Sim v4.2 Open
Added normal/tangential option for Morison Force (simu.morisonElement = 2) #408 Added Drag Body (body(i).nhBody=2) #423 #384 WEC-Sim output saved to structure #426 Added WEC-Sim parallel execution for batch runs (`wecSimPCT) using MATLAB p…
View article: Initial conceptual demonstration of control co-design for WEC optimization
Initial conceptual demonstration of control co-design for WEC optimization Open
While some engineering fields have benefited from systematic design optimization studies, wave energy converters have yet to successfully incorporate such analyses into practical engineering workflows. The current iterative approach to wav…
View article: Initial conceptual demonstration of control co-design for WEC optimization
Initial conceptual demonstration of control co-design for WEC optimization Open
While some engineering fields have benefited from systematic design optimization studies, wave energy converters have yet to successfully incorporate such analyses into practical engineering workflows. The current iterative approach to wav…
View article: Initial conceptual demonstration of control co-design for WEC optimization
Initial conceptual demonstration of control co-design for WEC optimization Open
While some engineering fields have benefited from systematic design optimization studies, wave energy converters have yet to successfully incorporate such analyses into practical engineering workflows. The current iterative approach to wav…
View article: Techno-Economic Modelling of Tidal Energy Converter Arrays in the Tacoma Narrows
Techno-Economic Modelling of Tidal Energy Converter Arrays in the Tacoma Narrows Open
Hydrokinetic tidal energy converter (TEC) technology is yet to become cost competitive with other renewable energy sources. Understanding the interaction between energy production and the costs incurred harvesting that energy may unlock th…
View article: Reducing variability in the cost of energy of ocean energy arrays
Reducing variability in the cost of energy of ocean energy arrays Open
Variability in the predicted cost of energy of an ocean energy converter array is more substantial than for other forms of energy generation, due to the combined stochastic action of weather conditions and failures. If the variability is g…
View article: Layout Optimisation of Wave Energy Converter Arrays
Layout Optimisation of Wave Energy Converter Arrays Open
This paper proposes an optimisation strategy for the layout design of wave energy converter (WEC) arrays. Optimal layouts are sought so as to maximise the absorbed power given a minimum q-factor, the minimum distance between WECs, and an a…