Modelling and Optimization of Wave Energy Converters

Wave energy offers a promising renewable energy source, but technologies converting it into useful electricity face many design challenges. This guide presents numerical modeling and optimization methods for developing wave energy converter technologies, covering wave power absorption, modern concepts, and wave energy harvesting farms. It is a valuable resource for students and professionals in renewable energy, marine engineering, infrastructure engineering, hydrodynamics, ocean science, and mechatronics engineering.

Format: Hardback
Length: 424 pages
Publication date: 28 July 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Wave energy offers a promising renewable energy source, however, technologies converting wave energy into useful electricity face many design challenges. This guide presents numerical modelling and optimization methods for the development of wave energy converter technologies, from principles to applications. It covers the development status and perspectives of wave energy converter systems; the fundamental theories on wave power absorption; the modern wave energy converter concepts including oscillating bodies in single and multiple degree of freedom and oscillating water column technologies; and the relatively hitherto unexplored topic of wave energy harvesting farms. It can be used as a specialist student textbook as well as a reference book for the design of wave energy harvesting systems, across a broad range of disciplines, including renewable energy, marine engineering, infrastructure engineering, hydrodynamics, ocean science, and mechatronics engineering.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.routledge.com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Weight: 943g
Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032057392