.. _intro-publications: Publications ============ Refer to the `WEC-Sim Signature Project page `_ for a complete list of WEC-Sim publications, including publications written by users of the WEC-Sim code outside of the WEC-Sim development team. Here is a list of publications written by the WEC-Sim multi-lab team about the development and application of WEC-Sim: [1] Y.-H. Yu, M. Lawson, K. Ruehl, and C. Michelen, “`Development and Demonstration of the WEC-Sim Wave Energy Converter Simulation Tool `_,” in Proceedings of the 2nd Marine Energy Technology Symposium, METS 2014, Seattle, WA, 2014. [2] Y.-H. Yu, Y. Li, K. Hallett, and C. Hotimsky, “`Design and Analysis for a Floating Oscillating Surge Wave Energy Converter `_,” in Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE 2014, San Francisco, CA, 2014. [3] M. Lawson, Y.-H. Yu, A. Nelessen, K. Ruehl, and C. Michelen, “`Implementing Nonlinear Buoyancy and Excitation Forces in the WEC-Sim Wave Energy Converter Modeling Tool `_,” in Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE 2014, San Francisco, CA, 2014. [4] K. Ruehl, C. Michelen, S. Kanner, M. Lawson, and Y.-H. Yu, “`Preliminary Verification and Validation of WEC-Sim, an Open-Source Wave Energy Converter Design Tool `_,” in Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE 2014, San Francisco, CA, 2014. [5] M. Lawson, Y.-H. Yu, K. Ruehl, and C. Michelen, “`Improving and Validating the WEC-Sim Wave Energy Converter Code `_," in Proceedings of the 3rd Marine Energy Technology Symposium, METS 2015, DC, 2015. [6] N. Tom, M. Lawson, and Y. Yu, “`Demonstration of the Recent Additions in Modeling Capabilities for the WEC-Sim Wave Energy Converter Design Tool `_,” in Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE 2015, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, 2015. [7] R. So, A. Simmons, T. Brekken, K. Ruehl, and C. Michelen, “`Development of PTO-SIM: A Power Performance Module for the Open-Source Wave Energy Converter Code WEC-SIM `_,” in Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE 2015, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, 2015. [8] M. Lawson, B. Garzon, F. Wendt, Y.-H. Yu, and C. Michelen, “`COER Hydrodynamics Modeling Competition: Modeling the Dynamic Response of a Floating Body Using the WEC-SIM and FAST Simulation Tools `_,” in Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE 2015, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, 2015. [9] N. Tom, M. Lawson, and Y.-H. Yu, “`Recent Additions in the Modeling Capabilities for the WEC-Sim-v1.1 Wave Energy Converter Design Tool `_,” in Proceedings of the 25th International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, ISOPE 2015, Kona, HI, 2015. [10] R. So, S. Casey, S. Kanner, A. Simmons, and Brekken, T. K. A., “`PTO-Sim: Development of a Power Take Off Modeling Tool for Ocean Wave Energy Conversion `_,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PES 2015, Denver, CO, 2015. [11] A. Simmons, T. Brekken, P. Lomonaco, and C. Michelen, “`Creating a Dynamometer for Experimental Validation of Power Take-Off Forces on a Wave Energy Converter `_,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Sustainability Technology Conference, SusTech 2015, Ogden, UT, 2015. [12] A. Combourieu, M. Lawson, A. Babarit, K. Ruehl, A. Roy, R. Costello, P. L. Weywada, and H. Bailey, “`WEC3: Wave Energy Converters modeling Code Comparison project `_,” in Proceedings of the 11th European Wave and Tidal Conference, EWTEC 2015, Nantes, France, 2015. [13] K. Ruehl, C. Michelen, Y.-H. Yu, and M. Lawson, “`Update on WEC-Sim Validation Testing and Code Development `_,” in Proceedings of the 4th Marine Energy Technology Symposium, METS 2016, DC, 2016. [14] B. Bosma, K. Ruehl, A. Simmons, B. Gunawan, P. Lomonaco, and C. Kelley, “`WEC-Sim Phase 1 Validation Testing – Experimental Setup and Initial Results `_,” in Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE 2016, Busan, South Korea, 2016. [15] K. Ruehl, C. Michelen, B. Bosma, and Y.-H. Yu, “`WEC-Sim Phase 1 Validation Testing – Numerical Modeling of Experiments `_,” in Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE 2016, Busan, South Korea, 2016. [16] S. Sirnivas, Y.-H. Yu, M. Hall, and B. Bosma, 2016, “`Coupled Mooring Analyses for the WEC-Sim Wave Energy Converter Design Tool `_,” in Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE 2016, Busan, South Korea, 2016. [17] E. Quon, A. Platt, Y.-H. Yu, and M. Lawson, 2016, “`Application of the Most Likely Extreme Response Method for Wave Energy Converters `_,” in Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE 2016, Busan, South Korea, 2016. [18] R. So, C. Michelen, B. Bosma, P. Lenee-Bluhm, and T. K. A. Brekken, “`Statistical Analysis of a 1:7 Scale Field Test Wave Energy Converter Using WEC-Sim `_,” IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 1118–1126, Jul. 2017. [19] J. Van Rij, Y.-H. Yu, and Y. Guo, “`Structural loads analysis for wave energy converters `_,” in Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE 2017, Trondheim, Norway, 2017. [20] Y.-H. Yu and D. Jenne, “`Analysis of a wave-powered, reverse-osmosis system and its economic availability in the United States `_,” in Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE 2017, Trondheim, Norway, 2017. [21] J. Ringwood et al., “`A competition for WEC control systems `_,” in Proceedings of the 12th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, EWTEC 2017, Cork, Ireland, 2017. [22] F. Wendt et al., “`International Energy Agency Ocean Energy Systems Task 10 Wave Energy Converter Modeling Verification and Validation `_,” in Proceedings of the 12th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, EWTEC 2017, Cork, Ireland, 2017. [23] Y. Guo, Y.-H. Yu, and J. van Rij, “`Inclusion of structural flexibility in design load analysis for wave energy converters `_,” in Proceedings of the 12th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, EWTEC 2017, Cork, Ireland, 2017. [24] N. Tom, K. Ruehl, and F. Ferri, “`Numerical model development and validation for the WECCCOMP control competition `_,” in Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE 2018, Madrid, Spain, 2018. [25] Y.-H. Yu, N. Tom, and D. Jenne, “`Numerical analysis on hydraulic power take-off for wave energy converter and power smoothing methods `_,” in Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE 2018, Madrid, Spain, 2018. .. TODO This list of publications only goes through 2018 News Articles ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ * August 2013 – Sandia National Laboratories, `Sandia-NREL Wave Energy Converter (WEC)-Sim Development Meeting `_ * April 2014 – Sandia National Laboratories, `WEC-Sim Code Development Meeting at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory `_ * July 2014 – Sandia National Laboratories, `Sandia, NREL Release Wave Energy Converter Modeling and Simulation Code: WEC-Sim `_ * August 2014 – NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, `NASA helps harness an ocean of energy `_ * November 2014 – Renewable Energy World, `Marine Energy Making Waves on Both Sides of the Pond `_ * April 2015 – Tidal Energy Today, `NREL, SNL release update for WEC simulator `_ * May 2015 – US Department of Energy, `Revamped Simulation Tool to Power Up Wave Energy Development `_ * July 2015 - Tidal Energy Today, `US wave energy simulation team wins COER award `_ * September 2015 - Sandia Wind & Water Power Newsletter, `WEC-Sim Leveraged to Model Floating Offshore Wind Experiments, and PTO-Sim: A Power Performance Module for WEC-Sim `_ * October 2015 – Windpower Engineering, `WEC-Sim leveraged to model floating offshore wind experiments `_ * October 2015 – OpenORE, `WEC3: codes that work `_ * October 2015 – OpenORE, `WEC-Sim Version 1.2 `_ * December 2015 – Oregon State University, O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory, `Wave Energy Converter Simulator: WEC-Sim `_ * February 2016 - Tidal Energy Today, `US National Labs organize WEC-Sim training course `_ * April 2016 - Tidal Energy Today, `Open-source WEC-Sim testing moves forward `_ * April 2016 - US Department of Energy, `EERE Success Story—Open-Source Testing Reaches New Milestone for Wave Energy `_ * November 2016 – Oregon State University, College of Engineering, `Ripples upon ripples `_ * April 2017 - Tidal Energy Today, `Sandia Labs sets up wave energy webinars `_ * May 2017 - Tidal Energy Today, `Video: US national labs share wave modeling know-how `_ * November 2017 - MATLAB Newsletter, `Modeling and Simulating Next-Generation Wave Farm Technology `_ * December 2017 - NUI Maynooth Centre for Ocean Energy Research, `WEC Control Competition (WECCCOMP) `_ .. TODO This list of publications only goes through 2017 * June 2020 - NREL, `Wave Energy Modeling Tool Helps Design Tomorrow's Tech `_ * May 2021 - Offshore Energy, `WEC-Sim to support NASA’s lunar test flight `_ * October 2021 - R&D World, `WEC-Sim wins 2021 R&D 100 Award for Software/Service `_ * November 2021 - Testing & Expertise for Marine Energy (TEAMER), `WEC-Sim established as TEAMER test facility for numerical modeling `_ * January 2022 - `Award-Winning Simulation Software Helps NASA and Close to 100 Wave Energy Developers Improve Sea-Faring Technology `_ * March 2022 - Department of Energy Water Power Technologies Office (DOE WPTO), `Open-Source Wave Energy WEC-Sim Software Receives R&D 100 Award and Contributes to Space Exploration `_ * July 2022 - R&D World, `R&D 100 winner of the day: WEC-Sim `_