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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MATLAB Software required. Open Source Software package available from Sandia National Laboratory at the following URL: https://github.com/WEC-Sim/WEC-Sim | HTML | MATLAB Software required. Open Source Software package available from Sandia National Laboratory at the following URL: https://github.com/WEC-Sim/WEC-Sim | Open resource |