Thrust Enhancement of Wave-driven Unmanned Surface Vehicle by using Asymmetric Foil
Yan Gao Lyucheng Xie Tin Lun Lam Yan Gao Lyucheng Xie Tin Lun Lam
In the Wave-driven unmanned surface vehicles (WUSVs), oscillating-foils are the most straightforward and widely used wave energy conversion mechanism. In this paper, a kind of novel asymmetric foil is proposed, which improves the wave energy-converting efficiency to provide a more significant thrust in every wave cycle. We break down the movement of the foils in the wave and build the correspondin...