This paper presents an analysis of the performance of a pancake absorber with a helical heal exchanger for use with point focus solar concentrating collectors. Th e principal difference between this type of absorber and most other concentrating solar collector absorbers is that the intensity of concentrated radiation monotonically increases from the inlet to the outlet of the heat exchanger tub...

To simulate the interaction of buried defects and absorber features in EUV masks and their effects on projection printing, a prototype 2D, fast, integrated, simulator based on ray tracing and a thin mask model is presented. RADICAL (Rapid Absorber Defect Interaction Computation for Advanced Lithography), consists of three sequential steps: the propagation of the mask illumination down through t...

In this article we present numerical studies of waves interacting with a cylindrical point absorber that is directly driving a seabed based linear generator. For waves useful for power conversion, the wave/point absorber interaction can be modelled, using potential theory assuming an inviscid irrotational incompressible fluid. The generator is modelled as a viscous damper. This paper pays speci...

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 ...