Point Absorber

Device that absorbs energy from the relative motion between a wave-activated, moving body and a fixed structure.

Point absorbers extract energy through the relative motion between a body that moves in response to wave forcing and fixed or immobile structures. The moving body may be on the surface or submerged, and the 'fixed' body may be the seabed or another structure less affected by wave action. Their principal dimension is small relative to the length of waves they are absorbing energy from. Electricity may be produced using a linear or rotary generator, or a fluid may be pumped using mechanical force and motion directly.

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Affiliated Marine Energy Engineering Documents

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Title Author Date Type of Content Technology Collection Method Engineering
Study on energy conversion and storage system for a prototype buoys-array wave energy converter Liu, Z., Qu, N., Han, Z. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Modeling, Test Center Array Effects, Performance, Power Take Off
ISWEC design tool Sirigu, S., Vissio, G., Bracco, G. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Modeling Materials, Performance, Power Take Off, Structural
Experimental Evaluation of IRWEC1, a Novel Offshore Wave Energy Converter Alamian, R., Shafaghat, R., Farhadi, M. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Field Data, Lab Data, Scale Device Performance, Power Take Off
Tank testing of an inherently phase-controlled wave energy converter Todalshaug, J., Ásgeirsson, G., Hjálmarsson, E. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Lab Data, Modeling, Scale Device Control, Mooring, Performance, Power Take Off
Hydrodynamic performance of a pile-restrained WEC-type floating breakwater: An experimental study Ning, D., Zhao, X., Göteman, M. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Lab Data, Scale Device Hydrodynamics, Performance, Power Take Off
Evaluation of wave energy absorption by heaving point absorbers at various hot spots in Iran seas Khojasteh, D., Kamali, R. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Modeling Hydrodynamics, Performance, Structural
An optimal arrangement of mooring lines for the three-tether submerged point-absorbing wave energy converter Sergiienko, N., Cazzolato, B., Ding, B. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Modeling Mooring
Design and control of a point absorber wave energy converter with an open loop hydraulic transmission Fan, Y., Mu, A., Ma, T. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Modeling Control, Hybrid Devices
Experimental and numerical comparisons of hydrodynamic responses for a combined wind and wave energy converter concept under operational conditions Wan, L., Gao, Z., Moan, T. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Modeling Hybrid Devices, Hydrodynamics, Power Take Off
Performance of optimally tuned arrays of heaving point absorbers Sinha, A., Karmakar, D., Soares, C. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Modeling Array Effects, Hydrodynamics, Performance
Fast and Effective Optimisation of Arrays of Submerged Wave Energy Converters Wu, J., Shekh, S., Sergiienko, N. Conference Paper Wave, Point Absorber Array Effects, Performance
Application of the Most Likely Extreme Response Method for Wave Energy Converters Quon, E., Platt, A., Yu, Y. Conference Paper Wave, Point Absorber Modeling
Mathematical and Numerical Modelling of Wave Impact on Wave-Energy Buoys Kalogirou, A., Bokhove, O. Conference Paper Wave, Point Absorber Modeling
Loads and Dynamic Response of a Floating Wave Energy Converter due to Regular Waves From CFD Simulations Buchner, A., Knapp, T., Bednarz, M. Conference Paper Wave, Point Absorber Modeling Hydrodynamics
Experimental investigations on a low frequency horizontal pendulum ocean kinetic energy harvester for underwater mooring platforms Ding, W., Song, B., Mao, Z. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Scale Device Performance, Power Take Off
Numerical and physical modeling of a flexibly-connected two-body wave energy converter Rosenberg, B., Mundon, T. Conference Paper Wave, Point Absorber Lab Data, Modeling, Scale Device Performance
Station-keeping Simulation of a Non-moored WEC Rusch, C., Polagye, B., Joslin, J. Conference Paper Wave, Point Absorber Modeling Mooring, Performance
Phase-resolved heave plate dynamics for wave energy converters Brown, A., Thomson, J. Conference Paper Wave, Point Absorber Field Data Hydrodynamics, Structural
WEC and support bridge control structural dynamic interaction analysis Wilson, D., Bacelli, G., Coe, R. Conference Paper Wave, Point Absorber Field Data, Modeling Control, Structural
Tool for distributed pressure time-histories of marine structures: Verification and Case Study with a WEC Michelen, C., Coe, R., Wang, Q. Conference Paper Point Absorber Structural
On the short-term uncertainty in performance of a point absorber wave energy converter Manuel, L., Canning, J., Coe, R. Conference Paper Wave, Point Absorber Modeling Performance
Investigation on modeling of non-buoyant body typed point absorbing wave energy converter using Adaptive Network-based Fuzzy Inference System Amarkarthik, A., Sivakumar, K. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Lab Data, Modeling, Scale Device Performance
Energy efficiency of pneumatic power take-off for wave energy converter Liermann, M., Samhoury, O., Atshan, S. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Lab Data, Modeling, Scale Device Performance, Power Take Off, Structural
Model tests of Sigma wave energy converter: The lessons learned Dragić, M., Hofman, M., Tomin, V. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Modeling, Test Center, Scale Device Performance, Power Take Off
A new optimization procedure of heaving point absorber hydrodynamic performances Piscopo, V., Benassai, G., Cozzolino, L. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Modeling Hydrodynamics, Performance
Characterization of loads on a hemispherical point absorber wave energy converter Jakobsen, M., Beatty, S., Iglesias, G. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Lab Data, Modeling Hydrodynamics, Structural
Wave energy conversion through a point pivoted absorber: Numerical and experimental tests on a scaled model Coiro, D., Troise, G., Calise, G. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Modeling, Scale Device
Parametric study of two-body floating-point wave absorber Amiri, A. , Panahi, R., Radfar, S. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Modeling Performance
Analysis, design and experiment investigation of a novel wave energy converter Binh, P. , Tri, N. , Dung, D. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Modeling Power Take Off
Theoretical study on the power take-off estimation of heaving buoy wave energy converter Shi, H., Cao, F., Liu, Z. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Modeling Power Take Off
Numerical calculation method for the optimum wave energy absorption configuration based on the variation of Kochin function Kawabe, H., Michima, P., Shinohara, A. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Modeling Hydrodynamics, Performance
Performance assessment of wave measurements of wave buoys Liu, Q., Lewis, T., Zhang, Y. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Test Center, Scale Device Hydrodynamics, Performance
Numerical models for the motion and forces of point-absorbing wave energy converters in extreme waves Sjökvist, L., Wu, J., Ransley, E. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Modeling Hydrodynamics
MPPT strategy based on speed control for AWS-based wave energy conversion system Marei, M., Mokhtar, M., El-Sattar, A. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Modeling Control, Grid Integration
Sea-state modification and heaving float interaction factors from physical modelling of arrays of wave energy converters Stratigaki, V., Troch, P., Stallard, T. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Lab Data Array Effects
Enhancing the performance of heaving wave energy converters using model-free control approach Jama, M., Noura, H., Wahyudie, A. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Modeling Control
Numerical hydrodynamic modelling of a pitching wave energy converter Bhinder, M., Rahmati, M., Mingham, C. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Modeling Hydrodynamics, Structural
Sensitivity of a Wave Energy Converter Dynamics Model to Nonlinear Hydrostatic Models Coe, R., Bull, D. Conference Paper Wave, Point Absorber Modeling Control
A review on front end conversion in ocean wave energy converters Santhosh, N., Baskaran, V., Amarkarthik, A. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Power Take Off
Robust and low computational cost controller for improving captured power in heaving wave energy converters Wahyudie, A., Jama, M., Saeed, O. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Control, Performance
Application of an Arbitrary Mesh Interface for CFD Simulation of an Oscillating Wave Energy Converter Mishra, V., Beatty, S., Buckham, B. Conference Paper Wave, Point Absorber Modeling Hydrodynamics
Modelling mooring line non-linearities (material and geometric effects) for a wave energy converter using AQWA, SIMA and Orcaflex Bhinder, M., Karimirad, M., Weller, S. Conference Paper Wave, Point Absorber Modeling Mooring
A case study on the matrix approach to WEC performance characterization Hiles, C., de Andres, A., Beatty, S. Conference Paper Wave, Point Absorber Modeling Performance, Power Take Off
Wave tank experiments on the power capture of a multi-axis wave energy converter Zhang, D., George, A., Wang, Y. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Modeling, Scale Device Hydrodynamics, Performance, Structural
Performance analysis and optimization of a box-hull wave energy converter concept Bódai, T., Srinil, N. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Modeling Performance, Power Take Off
Control of rapid phase oscillations in the modelling of large wave energy arrays Isberg, J., Engström, J., Eriksson, M. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Modeling Array Effects, Hydrodynamics, Performance
Constrained optimal control of a point absorber wave energy converter with linear generator Wang, L., Engström, J., Göteman, M. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Modeling Control
Wave Loads on a Point-Absorbing Wave Energy Device in Extreme Waves Göteman, M., Engström, J., Eriksson, M. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Scale Device Power Take Off
Effect of non-ideal power take-off efficiency on performance of single- and two-body reactively controlled wave energy converters Falcao, A., Henriques, J. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Modeling Control, Hydrodynamics, Power Take Off
Capture width of the three-float multi-mode multi-resonance broadband wave energy line absorber M4 from laboratory studies with irregular waves of different spectral shape and directional spread Stansby, P., Moreno, E., Stallard, T. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Scale Device Hydrodynamics, Performance
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