Hydrodynamic and electromechanical simulation of a snapper based wave energy converter

Author

Bailey, H. ; Crozier, R.C. ; McDonald, A. ; Mueller, M.A. ; Spooner, E. ; McKeever, P.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Energy Syst., Univ. of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

fYear

2010

fDate

7-10 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

3085

Lastpage

3090

Abstract

A coupled electromechanical and hydrodynamic simulation of a novel generator connected to a heaving buoy for wave energy conversion has been developed. The simulation is based primarily in MATLAB using its built-in Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) solvers. These solvers have acted on the data derived from an electromagnetic finite element analysis and from the WAMIT wave interaction simulation software, to simulate the full system in the time domain.

Keywords

AC generators; differential equations; finite element analysis; hydrodynamics; power convertors; time-domain analysis; wave power plants; MATLAB; ODE solvers; WAMIT wave interaction simulation software; electromagnetic finite element analysis; electromechanical simulation; hydrodynamic simulation; ordinary differential equation; snapper based wave energy converter; time domain; Acceleration; Coils; Force; Generators; Hydrodynamics; Mathematical model; Springs; direct-drive; hydrodynamics; marine technology; permanent-magnet generator; wave energy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

IECON 2010 - 36th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

Conference_Location

Glendale, AZ

ISSN

1553-572X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5225-5

Electronic_ISBN

1553-572X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.2010.5674966

Filename

5674966