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1.1.1 Four Types of Wave energy Devices 1.1.2 Terminator Devices 1.1.3 Attenuators 1.1.4 Point Absorbers 1.1.5 Overtopping Devices 1.2 Ocean Energy Resources 1.2.1 Ocean Currents 1.3 Ocean Waves 1.3.1 Wave Climate 1.3.2 From where do these waves come?
1.4 Wave Energy Converter 1.5.Categorization And Description Of Technologies 1.5.1 Tidal Barrage Technologies 1.5.2 Tidal Current Technologies 1.5.3 Horizontal-axis turbines 1.5.4 Vertical-axis turbines 1.6 Ocean Wave Technologies 1.6.1 OWC (Oscillating Water Column) Systems 1.6.2 Absorber Systems 1.6.3 Overtopping Devices 1.6.4 Inverted Pendulum Devices 1.7 Other Wave Energy Systems 1.7.1 Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) 1.7.2 Salinity Gradient 1.8 Point Absorber 1.8.1 Wave Tank Experiments 1.9 Introduction To Computational Fluid Dynamics 1.9.1 Cfd Softwares 1.9.1.1 Meshing Software 1.9.1.2 Analysing Software 1.9.2 Stages Of Softwares
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1.9.3 Governing Equations 1.9.3.1 The Flow and its Mathematical Description 1.9.4 Comments On The Governing Equation
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An electricity generation unit is floating on an ocean A New Idea Is To Fixing Propellers Or Turbines Under The Sea To Generate Electrical Energy
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Sea Wave
Tidal Stream Horizontal-Axis Turbines Tidal Stream Vertical-Axis Turbines Example Of A Shoreline/Onshore Owc A Floating Owc Buoy A Farm Of Linear Generator-Based Point Absorber Buoys A Mechanical Power Take-Off System An Illustration Of The Overtopping Principle
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Inverted Pendulum Wave Energy Device Employing A Pressurized Hydraulics Power 1.6.4 Take-Off System 1.7.1 1.7.2 1.8 1.8 1.8.1 1.9.8.2 Closed-Cycle Otec (Rankine Cycle)
Point Absorber Collector body of WRASPA Experimental apparatus of 1/100th scale model of WRASPA Finite difference method