... ABSTRACT Wave Energy Converters (WECs) have excellent potential as a source of renewable energy that is yet to be commercially realised. Recent attention has been focused on the installation of Oscillating Water Column (OWC) devices as part of breakwaters or harbour walls to provide advantages...

... Potential Use of an Oscillating Water Column Located inside Perforated Caisson Yong Liu College of Engineering, Ocean University of China. Qingdao, Shandong Province, China. Yucheng Li Stat Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering, Dalian University of Technology. Dalian, Liaoning...

... to control the position of a wave energy conversion device by using a "water column" model" s three dimensional source distribution. yaw direction incident wave surge water column variation controller wave energy conversion device equation characteristic simulation renewable energy motion...

... of the principle of energy equivalency The theory is well conformed by model experiments KEY WORDS ocean energy resource, wave power generat ion, elment method vertical breakwater, localized finite INTRODUCTION In the study of wave energy utilization, a type of wave power converter called Oscillating Water Column...