WEC-Sim Wave Energy Converter Simulator

Description

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).

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 MATLAB Software required. Open Source Software package available from Sandia National Laboratory at the following URL: https://github.com/WEC-Sim/WEC-Sim http://wec-sim.github.io/WEC-Sim/

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  • wave-energy
  • software
  • energy-conversion
  • snl
  • simulation-tool
  • wind-and-water
  • matlab
  • water-power
  • wec-sim
  • kenetic
  • simulink
  • hydro
  • simulation
  • power-take-off-system
  • sandia

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