WEC-Sim Wave Energy Converter Simulator

Lawson, Michael; Yu, Yi-Hsiang; Ruehl, Kelley; Michelen, Carlos; Tom, Nathan

doi:10.7799/1887272

Title: WEC-Sim Wave Energy Converter Simulator

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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).

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Lawson, Michael; Yu, Yi-Hsiang; Ruehl, Kelley; Michelen, Carlos; Tom, Nathan

National Renewable Energy Laboratory; National Renewable Energy Laboratory
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Sandia National Laboratory

Publication Date:: Tue Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2016

Other Number(s):: GO28308

Research Org.:: National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Data (NREL-DATA), Golden, CO (United States); National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Subject:: 13 HYDRO ENERGY; 17 WIND ENERGY; MATLAB; NREL; SIMULINK; SNL; Sandia; WEC-Sim; Wind and Water; data; energy; energy conversion; hydro; kenetic; power-take-off-system; simulation; simulation tool; software; water power; wave energy

OSTI Identifier:: 1887272

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7799/1887272

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                    Lawson, Michael, Yu, Yi-Hsiang, Ruehl, Kelley, Michelen, Carlos, and Tom, Nathan. WEC-Sim Wave Energy Converter Simulator.  United States: N. p., 2016. 
        Web.  doi:10.7799/1887272.

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                    Lawson, Michael, Yu, Yi-Hsiang, Ruehl, Kelley, Michelen, Carlos, & Tom, Nathan. WEC-Sim Wave Energy Converter Simulator.  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.7799/1887272

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                    Lawson, Michael, Yu, Yi-Hsiang, Ruehl, Kelley, Michelen, Carlos, and Tom, Nathan. 2016.  
"WEC-Sim Wave Energy Converter Simulator".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.7799/1887272.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1887272. Pub date:Tue Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2016

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  title        = {WEC-Sim Wave Energy Converter Simulator},

  author       = {Lawson, Michael and Yu, Yi-Hsiang and Ruehl, Kelley and Michelen, Carlos and Tom, Nathan},

  abstractNote = {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).},

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