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Parametric pendulum based wave energy converter

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posted on 2017-11-20, 14:24 authored by Daniil Yurchenko, Panagiotis Alevras
© 2017 Elsevier Ltd The paper investigates the dynamics of a novel wave energy converter based on the parametrically excited pendulum. The herein developed concept of the parametric pendulum allows reducing the influence of the gravity force thereby significantly improving the device performance at a regular sea state, which could not be achieved in the earlier proposed original point-absorber design. The suggested design of a wave energy converter achieves a dominant rotational motion without any additional mechanisms, like a gearbox, or any active control involvement. Presented numerical results of deterministic and stochastic modeling clearly reflect the advantage of the proposed design. A set of experimental results confirms the numerical findings and validates the new design of a parametric pendulum based wave energy converter. Power harvesting potential of the novel device is also presented.

History

School

  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing

Volume

99

Pages

504 - 515

Citation

YURCHENKO, D. and ALEVAS, P., 2018. Parametric pendulum based wave energy converter. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 99, pp. 504-515.

Publisher

© Elsevier

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2017-06-20

Publication date

2017

Notes

This paper was published in the journal Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymssp.2017.06.026.

ISSN

0888-3270

eISSN

1096-1216

Language

  • en