20810133 - FLOATIND AND OFF-SHORE STRUCTURES

Wave loads on off-shore structures and their dynamics.
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Programme

- Floating structure classification.
- Hints on hydrostatics.
- Hints on wave propagation in finite depth and deep water: linear and weakly nonlinear potential flow theory.
- Floating structure dynamics: linear potential flow theory. Radiation and diffraction problems. Response Amplitude Operators.
- Long-wave approximation in potential flow
- Second-order wave loads: mean wave drift and slowly-varying wave loads. Newman’s approximation. Munk moment
- Wave-drift damping.
- Hints on fish hydrodynamics.
- Wave loads on small volume structures.
- Laminar flow, flow instability and turbulence transition.
- Viscous flow around a circular cylinder in steady current and in waves.
- Morison equation for steady current flow. Cross-flow principle. Extension to floating body in waves.
- Drag coefficient of a circular cylinder: dependency on Reynolds and Keulegan-Carpenter numbers


Core Documentation

O.M. Faltinsen: Sea Loads and Offshore Structures, Cambridge, 1995

Type of delivery of the course

The course is done through classroom lectures and a scheduled visit to the CNR-INM experimental facilities

Attendance

Attendance of the lectures is optional

Type of evaluation

The final evaluation exam consists of a written test with theoretical questions and two or three exercises. The oral exam is carried out at the request of the candidate after the written test.