A Review of Point Absorber Wave Energy Converters
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چکیده
There are more than thousands of concepts for harvesting wave energy, and energy converters (WECs) diverse in operating principles, design geometries deployment manners, leading to misconvergence WEC technologies. Among numerous devices, the point absorber converter (PAWEC) concept is one simplest, most broad-based promising that has been investigated intensively all over world. However, there only a few reviews focusing on PAWECs, dynamical advancement PAWECs merits an up-to-date review. This review aims provide critical overview state art PAWEC development, comparing contrasting various devices discussing recent research development efforts perspectives terms prototyping, hydrodynamic modelling, power take-off mechanism control.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2077-1312']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse10101534