WEC-Sim Wave Energy Converter Simulator

Dataset · Tue Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.7799/1887272· OSTI ID:1887272

Lawson, Michael ^[1]; Yu, Yi-Hsiang ^[2]; Ruehl, Kelley ^[3]; Michelen, Carlos ^[3]; Tom, Nathan ^[2]

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1. National Renewable Energy Laboratory; National Renewable Energy Laboratory
2. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
3. Sandia National Laboratory

WEC-Sim (Wave Energy Converter SIMulator) is an open-source wave energy converter (WEC) simulation tool. The code is developed in MATLAB/SIMULINK using the multi-body dynamics solver SimMechanics. WEC-Sim has the ability to model devices that are comprised of rigid bodies, power-take-off systems, and mooring systems. Simulations are performed in the time-domain by solving the governing WEC equations of motion in 6 degrees-of-freedom. The WEC-Sim project is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Wind and Water Power Technologies Office and the code development effort is a collaboration between the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL).

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Data (NREL-DATA), Golden, CO (United States); National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• OSTI ID: 1887272
• Report Number(s): GO28308
• Availability: [e-mail]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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