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Cairns, Gabriel, Ryan, Nicholas, Alexander, John Paul, Hocking, Graeme, Metherall, Brady, Ockendon, Hilary, Ockendon, John, Piette, Bernard, Rodgers, Niall, Sampath, Sangeetha and Whittaker, Robert J. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9598-5938
(2024)
Optimising Buoy Design for Wave Energy Harvesting using the WITT Device.
Abstract
This work considers the design of a wave energy converter employing the WITT device: a machine that is able to convert motion in all 6 degrees of freedom into electrical power. Various designs for housing the WITT device inside a buoy are investigated with the aim of converting the forcing from low-frequency ocean waves to a higher-frequency motion that the WITT generates power most effectively at. By modelling the rigid-body motion of a buoy in response to a provided ocean wave forcing and the dynamics of the internal mechanisms within the buoy, we explore how nonlinear oscillation dynamics may achieve the desired frequency amplification.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Engineering, Mathematics and Physics |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Fluids & Structures |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Dec 2024 01:14 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jun 2026 14:38 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/98053 |
| DOI: | 10.33774/miir-2024-jr8sm |
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