[HTML][HTML] A review of point absorber wave energy converters

B Guo, T Wang, S **, S Duan, K Yang… - Journal of Marine Science …, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
There are more than thousands of concepts for harvesting wave energy, and wave energy
converters (WECs) are diverse in operating principles, design geometries and deployment …

Flexible membrane structures for wave energy harvesting: A review of the developments, materials and computational modelling approaches

I Collins, M Hossain, W Dettmer, I Masters - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
In the last decade, there has been a growing trend towards flexible body wave energy
converters (WECs) enabled by rubber-like elastomeric composite membrane structures that …

[HTML][HTML] A review of recent advancements in offshore wind turbine technology

T Asim, SZ Islam, A Hemmati, MSU Khalid - Energies, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Offshore wind turbines are becoming increasingly popular due to their higher wind energy
harnessing capabilities and lower visual pollution. Researchers around the globe have …

Advancements in optimizing wave energy converter geometry utilizing metaheuristic algorithms

A Shadmani, MR Nikoo, AH Gandomi, M Chen… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
One area with significant potential for cost reduction is the shape and geometry design of
wave energy converters (WECs) to facilitate the development of these devices. Recent …

Motion characteristics of a modularized floating solar farm in waves

Y Wei, D Zou, D Zhang, C Zhang, B Ou, S Riyadi… - Physics of …, 2024‏ - pubs.aip.org
Modularized floating solar farms exhibit the potential to replace conventional steel-frame
ones, effectively remedying hydroelastic issues of a very large floating structure through …

[HTML][HTML] Layout and design optimization of ocean wave energy converters: A sco** review of state-of-the-art canonical, hybrid, cooperative, and combinatorial …

D Golbaz, R Asadi, E Amini, H Mehdipour, M Nasiri… - Energy Reports, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Ocean Wave energy is becoming a prominent technology, which is considered a vital
renewable energy resource to achieve the Net-zero Emissions Plan by 2050. It is also …

Environmental-sensing and adaptive optimization of wave energy converter based on deep reinforcement learning and computational fluid dynamics

H Liang, H Qin, H Su, Z Wen, L Mu - Energy, 2024‏ - Elsevier
This paper introduces a novel coupled model for real-time control of the point absorber wave
energy converter (WEC) using parallelized deep reinforcement learning (DRL), where the …

A heaving system with two separated oscillating water column units for wave energy conversion

C Wang, S Zheng, Y Zhang - Physics of Fluids, 2022‏ - pubs.aip.org
A theoretical model based on the linear potential theory is presented for two heaving
oscillating water column (OWC) devices separated by a gap. The model includes relative …

Experimental study of nonlinear states of oscillating water column in waves

C Zhang, J Dai, L Cui, D Ning - Physics of Fluids, 2023‏ - pubs.aip.org
Physical experiments are conducted in a large-scale wave flume to investigate the nonlinear
states of an oscillating water column in waves. A four-state classification (sloshing, piston …

[HTML][HTML] The inertial sea wave energy converter (ISWEC) technology: Device-physics, multiphase modeling and simulations

K Khedkar, N Nangia, R Thirumalaisamy, APS Bhalla - Ocean Engineering, 2021‏ - Elsevier
In this paper we investigate the dynamics of the inertial sea wave energy converter (ISWEC)
device using fully-resolved computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. Originally …