Wave Carpet – Protecting coastal zones while generating electricity

The principle concept of a wave carpet energy device is similar to that of propagation of waves over a muddy seafloor, where significant amount of wave energy attenuates due to the strong interaction with the mud banks. Wave Carpet – Protecting coastal zones while generating electricity  is offered at University of Dundee 

Context

Similarly, a wave carpet is a mud-resembling deformable plate that can potentially extract the entire wave energy. The plate deformation can be transferred into electricity generation by a direct-drive power take-off system connected to the plate.

A submerged wave carpet is a deformable plate, or elastic mat, that can be used to extract the wave energy, and for mitigation of large waves in coastal areas.

Wave Carpet – Protecting coastal zones while generating electricity is offered at University of Dundee

The goal of this project is

• to solve the problem of interaction of nonlinear long-waves with the elastic submerged plate by developing theoretical tools

• to determine the power output of the device
• to determine the effect of the wave energy devices on coastal areas.