“Broadband near-perfect capture of water wave energy by an array of wave energy converters” published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics

We outline a method to design arrays of simple heaving point-absorber wave energy converters by grading their power take off devices, which captures 99% of incident wave energy over a broad frequency range (doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2024.819).

Near perfect energy capture in the time domain by a graded array of five WECs (green boxes; top), and with the wave field broken into frequency components (bottom).

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