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15 - General Engineering
Lancaster University
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Article title
Optimizing the shape of a surge-and-pitch wave energy collector using a genetic algorithm
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Renewable Energy
Article number
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Volume number
35
Issue number
12
First page of article
2767
ISSN of journal
0960-1481
Year of publication
2010
Number of additional authors
2
Additional information
This EPSRC Supergen Marine-funded research describes the optimisation of the design of the prime interface of a floating wave energy device. A genetic algorithm is employed, allowing for the evolution of novel, un-imaginable shapes of wave converters that could increase energy yield. A benchmark collector shape is proposed, against which the optimized shapes are compared. This study formed the basis of an Applied Physics Letters experimental paper (103 (2013) 103901), an ASME paper in Nantes, France (OMAE 2013), a patent application and currently forms the basis of EPSRC Supergen Marine Phase III research.
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
B - Energy
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