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Zhipeng Zang, Zhuo Fang, Kuan Qiao, Limeng Zhao and Tongming Zhou
A three-dimensional numerical model was established based on ANSYS-AQWA (R19.0) software for the purpose of analyzing the hydrodynamic characteristics of a floating breakwater. This study examines three distinct floating breakwaters with different cross-...
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Bingbing Wan, Yuyun Shi and Zhifu Li
The interaction problem of waves with a body floating near the marginal ice zone is studied, where the marginal ice zone is modeled as an array of multiple uniformly sized floating ice sheets. The linear velocity potential theory is applied for fluid flo...
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Yan Dong, Jian Zhang, Shaofeng Zhong and Yordan Garbatov
The study aims to develop a simplified strength assessment method for the preliminary structural design of a semi-submersible floating offshore wind turbine platform. The method includes load cases with extreme wave load effects and a load case dominated...
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Xianqing Liu, Yu Ding, Wenlong Li, Puyang Zhang, Kui Yu, Yutao Feng, Nan Lv and Sheng Luo
In recent years, multi-bucket foundations have been studied and gradually adopted in engineering practices as a novel foundation for offshore wind turbines within a range of water depth of 30 to 50 m. This study investigated the motion characteristics of...
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Nicolás Molina-Padrón, Francisco Cabrera-Almeida, Víctor Araña-Pulido and Beatriz Tovar
Every year, more than 1500 containers are lost around the world. These accidents are increasingly more common due to the boom of the shipping industry, presenting serious consequences for marine ecosystems and maritime navigation. This problem has alerte...
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Tianhui Fan, Jianhu Fang, Xinkuan Yan and Yuan Ma
The floating offshore wind turbine provides a feasible solution for the development of renewable ocean energy. However, the sizeable rotor diameter of the wind turbine results in large wind heeling moments and pitch amplitude. It will increase the struct...
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Kedong Zhang, Wenhua Wang, Yihua Liu, Linlin Wang, Yazhen Du, Hongxia Li and Yi Huang
A new type of anti-rolling device denoted as a fluid momentum wheel (FMW) is proposed to address the limitations of traditional gyrostabilizers in reducing the roll responses of floating platforms in waves. The proposed device is based on the same gyrosc...
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Linjian Wu, Jia Yang, Zhouyu Xiang, Mingwei Liu, Minglong Li, Yutao Di, Han Jiang, Chuan Dai and Xudong Ji
Due to the large scale of navigation ships, the fast speed of entering the lock, and the irregular mooring and the complicated flow conditions in the lock chamber, it is common for the floating bollards of the lock to suffer structural damage or even fai...
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Dapeng Zhang, Bowen Zhao, Keqiang Zhu and Haoyu Jiang
Waves have an important influence on the motion performances of offshore crane vessels. The floating crane vessel in waves gives rise to the motion of the lifted object which is connected to the hoisting wire. Based on the geometric parameters of a revol...
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Brendan Saunders and Ryozo Nagamune
Floating offshore wind farm control via real-time turbine repositioning has a potential in significantly enhancing the wind farm efficiency. Although the wind farm power capture increase by moving platforms with aerodynamic force has been verified in a r...
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