TY - CONF
TI - Advanced Features and Recent Developments in the WEC-Sim Open-Source Design Tool 
AU - Leon, J
AU - Grasberger, J
AU - Forbush, D
AU - Sirigu, M
AU - Ancellin, M
AU - Tom, N
AU - Keester, A
AU - Ruehl, K
AU - Ogden, D
AU - Husain, S
T2 - Pan American Marine Energy Conference (PAMEC 2024)
AB -  WEC-Sim is an open-source tool developed in Matlab/Simulink to simulate wave energy converters (WECs). WEC-Sim has been developed jointly by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) since its initial release in 2014. WEC-Sim simulations are performed in the time domain based on the radiation and diffraction method using hydrodynamics coefficients derived from boundary element method (BEM)-based frequencydomain potential flow solvers (e.g., WAMIT, NEMOH, Capytaine, or ANSYS-AQWA). Within this level of modeling fidelity, WEC-Sim can handle floating body hydrodynamics, mechanical and electrical power generation methods, advanced control implementation, mooring systems, and other unique applications such as desalination. WEC-Sim functionalities are developed using Simulink blocks and Matlab functions. WEC-Sim is capabilities include simulation of different wave conditions, constraints and power take-offs (PTOs), body dynamics, mooring systems, among other advanced features such as nonlinear hydrodynamics, nonlinear PTOs, body-to-body interactions, etc.View the Conference Paper here.View the Presentation Slides here.
DA - 2024/02//
PY - 2024
UR - https://pamec.energy/events/pamec2024/conference-program/
LA - English
KW - Wave
KW - Modeling
KW - Hydrodynamics
KW - Mooring
KW - Power Take Off
ER -