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Preliminary Design And Analysis Of A Wave Energy Converter With Electromagnetic Induction, Laura Fernandez De Valderrama
Preliminary Design And Analysis Of A Wave Energy Converter With Electromagnetic Induction, Laura Fernandez De Valderrama
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
As the energy demand increases with the constantly increasing population, as well as the effort to replace conventional fossil fuels with cleaner sources of energy, ocean energy has emerged as a potential global resource. The ocean contains an enormous amount of energy that has not been exploited yet, although efforts have augmented during the past decades.
The overall purpose of this research is to design, model, and analyze, a wave energy converter (WEC) prototype to contribute to the current research in this field. This particular work represents the first stage of the research process in which the ultimate goal is …