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WEC-Sim (Wave Energy Converter - SIMulator)

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DOI:https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20171025.1545· OSTI ID:code-3044 · Code ID:3044

WEC-Sim (Wave Energy Converter SIMulator) is a code developed by Sandia National Laboratories and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to model wave energy converters (WECs) when they are subject to operational waves. The code is a time-domain modeling tool developed in MATLAB/Simulink using the multi-body dynamics solver SimMechanics. In WEC-Sim, WECs are modeled by connecting rigid bodies to one another with joint or constraint blocks from the WEC-Sim library. WEC-Sim is a publicly available, open-source code to model WECs.

Short Name / Acronym:
WEC-SIM v.1.1
Site Accession Number:
5384
Software Type:
Scientific
License(s):
Apache License 2.0
Research Organization:
Sandia National Laboratories
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE

Primary Award/Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
Code ID:
3044
OSTI ID:
code-3044
Country of Origin:
United States

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