WEC-Sim Wave Energy Converter Simulator

WEC-Sim (Wave Energy Converter SIMulator) is an open-source wave energy converter (WEC) simulation tool.
This repository includes:
- link to the WEC-Sim project website which includes, introductory and overview information about the WEC-Sim, WEC-Sim publications, release notes, license, WEC-SIM download, tutorials, theory manual, user manual, MOST manual, and developer manual
- link to the WEC-Sim Applications repository which contains a wide variety of scenarios that WEC-Sim can be used to model, including desalination, mooring dynamics, nonlinear hydrodynamic bodies, passive yawing, batch simulations and many others

The WEC-Sim software/code is developed in MATLAB/SIMULINK using the multi-body dynamics solver SimMechanics. WEC-Sim has the ability to model devices that are comprised of rigid bodies, power-take-off (PTO) systems, and mooring systems. Simulations are performed in the time-domain by solving the governing WEC equations of motion in 6 degrees-of-freedom. WEC-Sim can model both rigid bodies and flexible bodies with generalized body modes. The WEC-Sim has applications cross a significant range of modeling senarios including: desalination, mooring dynamics, nonlinear hydrodynamic bodies, passive yawing, batch simulations and many others. The software is very flexible and several interfaces with Simulink are included that allow users to couple WEC-Sim with a wide variety of other models and scripts relevant to their devices.

The WEC-Sim project is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Wind and Water Power Technologies Office and the code development effort is a collaboration between the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL).