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Spencer Funk, Ali Shahbaz Haider, Kush Bubbar and Brad Buckham
Mooring systems are a critical component of all floating wave energy converter (WEC) systems, yet the impact of amooring system on the WEC dynamics is often neglected during the initial assessment of candidate designs. The purpose of this study was to in...
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Yuan Zhang, Xuanyu Chen, Peng Xu, Xizeng Zhao, Ould el Moctar and Changqing Jiang
The development and utilization of wave energy, heralded as a potential leading source of clean energy worldwide, have garnered considerable attention from the global research community. Among the diverse array of wave energy converters (WECs), the raft-...
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Bret Bosma, Tim Lewis, Ted Brekken and Annette von Jouanne
A key component in bringing ocean wave energy converters from concept to commercialization is the building and testing of scaled prototypes to provide model validation. A one quarter scale prototype of an autonomous two body heaving point absorber was mo...
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