RT Journal Article
T1 Review of Systems Engineering (SE) Methods and Their Application to Wave Energy Technology Development
A1 Ruiz‐minguela, Pablo
A1 Nava, Vincenzo
A1 Hodges, Jonathan
A1 Blanco, Jesús M.
AB The design of effective and economically viable wave energy devices involves complex decision-making about the product based on conceptual design information, including stakeholder requirements, functions, components and technical parameters. The great diversity of concepts makes it extremely difficult to create fair comparisons of the relative merits of the many different designs. Conventional design approaches have proved insufficient to guarantee wave energy technologies meet their technical and economic goals. Systems engineering can provide a suitable framework to overcome the obstacles towards a successful wave energy technology. The main objective of this work is to review the well-established systems engineering approaches that have been successfully implemented in complex engineering problems and to what extent they have been applied to wave energy technology development. The paper first reviews how system information can be organised in different design domains to guide the synthesis and analysis activities and the definition of requirements and metrics, as well as the search for solutions and decision-making. Then, an exhaustive literature review on the application of systems engineering approaches to wave energy development is presented per design domain. Finally, a set of conclusions is drawn, along with some suggestions for improving the effectiveness of wave energy technology development.
SN 2077-1312
YR 2020
FD 2020-10-20
LA eng
NO Ruiz‐minguela , P , Nava , V , Hodges , J & Blanco , J M 2020 , ' Review of Systems Engineering (SE) Methods and Their Application to Wave Energy Technology Development ' , Journal of Marine Science and Engineering , vol. 8 , no. 10 , 823 , pp. 1-25 . https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse8100823 , https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse8100823
NO Publisher Copyright: © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
NO Acknowledgments: Authors would like to thank the Basque Government through the research groups IT1314‐ 19 and GIU19/276 and the Scottish Government for the support of Wave Energy Scotland. Funding: This work was partially supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 785921, project DTOceanPlus (Advanced Design Tools for Ocean Energy Systems Innovation, Development and Deployment).
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