2020 Volume 76 Issue 2 Pages I_899-I_904
The paper presents power generation characteristics of the proposed wave energy converter based on the bottom-hinged pendulum. The pendulum behavior becomes unstable and the power generation efficiency decreases when the wave energy is small, and the pendulum is installed at the position of D/L ≈ 0.5, which is the antinode of the standing wave. When the initial water depth was deeper than the pendulum, it was found that larger wave energy was required to rotate the pendulum stably. The maximum power generation efficiency (ke = 0.77) was obtained at the position of D/L ≈ 0.32.
