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Co-designing the future of wave energy: Sandia researcher presents at NCROEP
News Article, May 22, 2024 • Wave energy convertors (WECs) convert the motion of waves into electrical energy; however, designing devices to survive harsh marine environments and produce commercial-scale electricity at cost-effective rates has its challenges. Ryan Coe, a wave energy and fluid dynamics modeling specialist for Sandia National Laboratories’ Water Power Technologies program, addressed some...
Group photo of NCROEP attendees

Floating Oscillating Water Column Reference Model Completed
News Article, February 24, 2015 • The floating oscillating water column reference model (RM6) backward bent duct buoy (BBDB) device design and dimensions and Wells turbine schematic. The width of the device (not shown) is 27 m. The DOE-supported Reference Model Project was developed to provide publicly available technical and economic benchmarks for a variety of...

Pioneer WEC Concept Design Report webinar
News Article, March 21, 2024 • Join us for a free 90-minute webinar on April 2, 11 a.m. Eastern Time, focused on a novel “pitch resonator” wave energy convertor concept to support the power needs of the Coastal Surface Mooring system within the Ocean Observatories Initiative Pioneer Array. The four-person panel features researchers from Sandia National...

Sandian Wins Award in 2015 OMAE Hydraulic Modeling Competition
News Article, July 14, 2015 • The OMAE 2015 Hydrodynamic Modeling Competition award ceremony at the ASME conference in St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada. Sandia's Carlos Michelen is third from the right. Carlos Michelen (in Sandia’s Water Power Technologies Dept.) and a team of National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers (Michael Lawson, Braulio Garzon, Fabian Wendt, and...

Surf’s Up! Free webinar on wave energy
News Article, March 20, 2024 • Join our free webinar on March 26 at 11 a.m. Eastern Time with Sandia National Laboratories’ Ryan Coe, Giorgio Bacelli, Dominic Forbush and Tim Donnelly. They will share and discuss recent results from WEC co-design testing on the “WaveBot” device at the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division Maneuvering...

Wave-Energy/-Device Modeling: Developing A 1:17 Scaled Model
News Article, September 23, 2015 • Many theoretical studies show that additional energy can be captured through control of the power-conversion chains (PCCs) of resonant wave-energy converter (WEC) devices. The numerical models employed in these studies are, however, idealized to varying degrees. The objective of the Resilient Nonlinear Controls (RNLC) project is to validate the extent...