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Design of high-deflection foils MHK applications CFD models RivGen turbine

The Ocean Renewable Power Company's (ORPC's) goal is to design, develop, and test hydrofoils with large deflections. The effects of the deflections on cross-flow turbine performance would be evaluated in order to inform design considerations for full-scale water turbines and other...

Barrington, M. and McEntee, J. Ocean Renewable Power Company

Dec 08, 2021
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Extreme Significant Wave Heights for US Coastal Waters

Includes extreme significant wave heights, in meters, computed using peaks over threshold method on NOAA 30-year WWIII hindcast data. Extreme values for 5, 10, 25, 50, and 100 year return periods were computed. Sites cover US coastlines. Column 1: Site identifier/name Column 2: S...

Bredin, S. Sandia National Laboratories

Sep 01, 2016
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Cone Penetration Tests at the PacWave South Test Site

This ZIP archive contains cone penetration test data from the PacWave South Test Site. The data were collected in September 2023 aboard the ship Seacor Lee operating out of the Port of Newport, OR. The tests were performed by ConeTec using an AP van den Berg ROSON-100. The cone it...

Evans, M. Pacific Marine Energy Center (PMEC)

Sep 07, 2023
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Linear and Nonlinear Spectra for Time Series Measured in the North Sea

This submission includes both linear and nonlinear wave spectra for time series taken off the Ekofisk Oil Platform in the North Sea for the years 2003-2020. The raw data was sourced from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (https://www.met.no/en) and processed in Matlab. This...

Sutherland, A. Pacific Marine Energy Center (PMEC)

Jan 28, 2025
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Water Horse Hydroelectric Harvester Single Oscillator Field Testing Data, UAF Nenana Alaska, 2020

Raw and processed timeseries data generated during field testing of a single oscillating hydrofoil Water Horse prototype at PMEC (Pacific Marine Energy Center) Tanana River Test Site in Nenana, AK in July 2020. Data collection by University of Alaska, Fairbanks. This submission i...

Loeffler, B. et al University of Alaska Fairbanks

Jul 10, 2020
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Wave Energy Prize 1/50th Testing M3 Wave Submerged Mid-Column Pressure Differential WEC

This submission of data includes all the 1/50th scale testing data completed on the Wave Energy Prize for the M3 Wave team, and includes: 1/50th test data (raw & processed) 1/50th test data video and pictures 1/50th Test plans and testing documents SSTF_Submission (summarized ...

Scharmen, W. Ricardo Detroit Technical Center

Jan 08, 2016
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TEAMER: Modeling of Wave Energy Converter-augmented Ocergy Offshore Platform

In this project, using the MATLAB/Simulink tool, WEC-Sim, initial simulations were performed of Ocergy's offshore data platform, the OCG-Data, to study the feasibility of augmenting this platform with several wave energy converters (WECs) affixed to platform structure. A target of...

Tom, N. et al Ocergy, Inc

May 15, 2026
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Spooling control design for flight optimization of tethered tidal kites

This submission includes three peer-reviewed (under review) papers from the researchers at North Carolina State University presenting different control-based techniques to maximize the efficiency and robustness of a tethered energy-harvesting kite. Below are the abstracts of each ...

Daniels, J. et al North Carolina State University

Sep 16, 2019
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TEAMER: Proprietary Initial Optimization of a Vessel-mounted Removable Current Energy Converter

This project focuses on developing a numerical tool to estimate the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) for vessel-mounted hydrokinetic turbines. By leveraging open-source software and public-domain data, the tool evaluates energy capture and costs for deploying turbines on vessels in...

Forbush, D. et al Sandia National Laboratories

Jul 31, 2024
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SeaRAY WEC Preliminary Design and Test Planning

The SeaRAY is a deployable power system for maritime sensors, monitoring equipment, communications, unmanned underwater vehicles, and other similar payloads. This project is to design, deliver, and test a prototype low-power WEC that lowers the total cost of ownership and provides...

Hammagren, E. et al Columbia Power Technologies, Inc.

May 18, 2020
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Tidal Energy Site Characterization East Forelands Alaska

During the summer field season in 2012, Benthic GeoScience Inc. (Benthic) mobilized under contract with Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) in order to conduct precise geospatial measurements of the seafloor accomplishing a preliminary Site Characterization Study for the ORPC Eas...

Worthington, M. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Apr 01, 2013
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TEAMER: Additional Degree of Freedom for WEC Model

'Additional Degree of Freedom for WEC' WEC-Sim numerical model from RFTS 1 (request for technical support) TEAMER project. An increase in wave energy converter (WEC) efficiency requires not only consideration of the nonlinear effects in the WEC dynamics and the power take-off (PTO...

McCall, A. et al Dehlsen Associates, LLC

May 26, 2022
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TEAMER: AquaHarmonics High Fidelity WEC Sim PTO and Control Model Validation, Sim Model

Collaborative effort between AquaHarmonics, Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to revise and validate Aquaharmonics' full wave to wire model, allowing for reduced uncertainty and increased understanding of design requirements of...

Tom, N. and Leon, J. AquaHarmonics, Inc.

Dec 31, 2021
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TEAMER: MADWEC Techno-Economic Analysis

The objective of this project was for the facility to conduct a techno-economic assessment (TEA) of the Maximal Asymmetric Drag Wave Energy Converter (MADWEC), developed by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (UMass Dartmouth). MADWEC is used for powering remote monitoring a...

Ortega, T. and Baca, E. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Mar 08, 2024
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NWEI Azura June 2015 Data

Data files for the NWEI Azura grid-connected deployment at the 30-meter berth of the US Navy's Wave Energy Test Site (WETS 30m Site) at the Kaneohe Marine Corps Base Hawai'i (MCBH) on the windward (northeast) coast of the island of O'ahu, HI. See general documentation describing ...

Lettenmaier, T. Northwest Energy Innovations

Dec 14, 2015
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NWEI Azura April 2018 Data

Data files for the NWEI Azura grid-connected deployment at the 30-meter berth of the US Navys Wave Energy Test Site (WETS 30m Site) at the Kaneohe Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH) on the windward (northeast) coast of the island of Oahu, HI. See general documentation describing spe...

Lettenmaier, T. Northwest Energy Innovations

May 18, 2018
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TEAMER: Numerical Modeling and Optimization of the iProTech Pitching Inertial Pump (PIP) Wave Energy Converter (WEC)

This project focused on developing an automated workflow to evaluate and optimize the iProTech Pitching Inertial Pump (PIP) wave energy converter (WEC) using open-source Python packages and the MATLAB/Simulink tool, WEC-Sim. The process involved parameterizing key design variables...

Wynn, N. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Apr 11, 2024
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IEC TS 62600-3 Measurement of Mechanical Loads Static Blade Testing (Draft Title)

To be updated

Meuris, B. et al Sandia National Laboratories

Feb 18, 2026
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Design of High-Deflection Foils MHK Applications FEA models

Barrington, M. and McEntee, J. Ocean Renewable Power Company

Oct 01, 2021
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ALFA Coupled Computational Fluid Dynamics/Discrete Element Method Modeling System

The HDIS/COUPi discrete element method modeling system was used to simulate the interaction between various debris and the Research Debris Diversion Platform (RDDP)

DUVOY, P. University of Alaska Fairbanks

Nov 29, 2016
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Tidal Current Cross-flow Turbine Wake ADV and PIV Data

Measurements in the wake of a high-solidity cross-flow turbine in a laboratory flume obtained using Acoustic Doppler Velocimetry and Particle Image Velocimetry for the purposes of characterizing the turbine wake and comparing the methods.

Polagye, B. University of Washington

Dec 06, 2016
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TEAMER: Two Stage Ocean Current Turbine Reduced Order Modeling

The Equinox Ocean Current turbine is a groundbreaking new two-stage turbine design, enabling cost effective power generation at low water velocities. The data included in this submission can be used to reproduce the figures provided in the corresponding Post Access Report. The pro...

Ross, H. et al National Laboratory of the Rockies

Mar 04, 2026
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RivGen Current Flow Measurements, Igiugig, AK

Measurements of flow velocity, distribution and turbulence conducted by University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory, Igiugig, Alaska, Summer 2014

Thomson, J. et al Ocean Renewable Power Company

Nov 03, 2014
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TEAMER: Ocean Energy Sandia WEC Simulation Results

Computational fluid simulations for wave energy converters and supporting materials from Ocean Energy's WEC Buoy TEAMER RFTS 1 (request for technical support) project in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories. Each file includes images and video of simulation along with t...

Lewis, T. and Chartrand, C. Ocean Energy

Aug 01, 2022
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TEAMER: Triton Systems Oscillating Water Column Modeling Data and Report

This dataset provides the output of six Wave Energy Converter Simulator (WEC-Sim) simulations and accompanying documentation for the modeling of Triton Systems' oscillating water column (OWC) system at tank scale (validated using available data for tuning the model, Tests 1-2) and...