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Alain Clément
Researcher at École centrale de Nantes
Publications - 81
Citations - 3407
Alain Clément is an academic researcher from École centrale de Nantes. The author has contributed to research in topics: Time domain & Oscillating Water Column. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 79 publications receiving 3101 citations. Previous affiliations of Alain Clément include Centre national de la recherche scientifique.
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Wave energy in Europe: current status and perspectives
Alain Clément,Pat McCullen,António F.O. Falcão,Antonio Fiorentino,Fred Gardner,Karin Hammarlund,George Lemonis,Tony Lewis,Kim Nielsen,Simona Petroncini,M.-Teresa Pontes,Phillippe Schild,Bengt-Olov Sjöström,Hans Christian Sørensen,Tom Thorpe +14 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the progress in wave energy conversion in Europe during the past ten years is reviewed and current activities and initiatives in the wave energy sector at National and Union level are described.
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Optimal Latching Control of a Wave Energy Device in Regular and Irregular Waves
Aurélien Babarit,Alain Clément +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe two methods which can be used to assess the benefit that latching control can bring to the efficiency of wave energy converters, based on the analytical solution of the equation of motion of the WEC in the time domain, using matrix exponentials.
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Comparison of latching control strategies for a heaving wave energy device in random sea
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated semi-analytically the latching control applied to a mechanical oscillator; and numerically three strategies of latching controlling for a point absorber wave energy converter oscillating in the heave mode only.
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Declutching control of a wave energy converter
TL;DR: In this article, the optimal command theory was used to determine the control law of the bypass valve of a wave energy converter. And the authors showed that declutching control can lead to energy absorption performance at least equivalent to that of pseudo-continuous control.
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Coupling of Two Absorbing Boundary Conditions for 2D Time-Domain Simulations of Free Surface Gravity Waves
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a coupling of two previously known methods in order to benefit from their different, and complementary, bandwidth: the numerical "beach", very efficient in the high frequency range; and a piston-like Neumann condition, asymptotically ideal for low frequencies.