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IET RENEWABLE POWER GENERATION
Volume 7, Issue 5, Pages 565-573Publisher
INST ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY-IET
DOI: 10.1049/iet-rpg.2012.0072
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- European Community [232099]
- Snapper Consortium
- EPSRC [EP/I027912/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/I027912/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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A coupled electromechanical and hydrodynamic time-domain simulation of a direct-drive generator connected to a heaving buoy for wave energy conversion is presented. The system is based on a novel direct-drive power take-off unit referred to as snapper. The simulation is based primarily in MATLAB using its built-in ordinary differential equation solvers. These solvers act on the data derived from electromagnetic finite element analysis and from the WAMIT wave interaction simulation software. Test results of a generator prototype for comparison with the electromechanical simulation are presented. Results from wave tank tests of a full system incorporating the power take-off are also provided for comparison with the hydrodynamic model.
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