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MECHANICAL SYSTEMS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING
Volume 99, Issue -, Pages 504-515Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymssp.2017.06.026
Keywords
Wave energy converter; Wave energy; Parametric pendulum; Power take-off; Reduced gravity; Energy harvesting; Mathieu equation; Electromagnetic generator
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The paper investigates the dynamics of a novel wave energy converter based on the parametrically excited pendulum. The herein developed concept of the parametric pendulum allows reducing the influence of the gravity force thereby significantly improving the device performance at a regular sea state, which could not be achieved in the earlier proposed original point-absorber design. The suggested design of a wave energy converter achieves a dominant rotational motion without any additional mechanisms, like a gearbox, or any active control involvement. Presented numerical results of deterministic and stochastic modeling clearly reflect the advantage of the proposed design. A set of experimental results confirms the numerical findings and validates the new design of a parametric pendulum based wave energy converter. Power harvesting potential of the novel device is also presented. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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