A review on the nonlinear dynamics of pendulum systems for energy harvesting from ocean waves

FRANCO EZEQUIEL DOTTI; FLORENCIA REGUERA; SEBASTIÁN PABLO MACHADO

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Congreso; PANACM 2015: First Pan-American Congress on Computational Mechanics / MECOM 2015: XI Argentine Congress on Computational Mechanics; 2015

Asociación Argentina de Mecánica Computacional / International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE)

In this article we explore the state of knowledge in the field of nonlinear rotatory dynamics of pendulum systems, with a view in energy harvesting from ocean waves. Although the idea of extracting energy from the ocean by pendulum systems is recent, there exist a previous wealth of analytical, numerical and experimental research which was aimed to understand the dynamics of the parametric pendulum. The key points of this research are reviewed, and also the still many unanswered questions are discussed.