Offshore Structure Hydrodynamics

This standalone handbook is an ideal companion for researchers as well as engineers involved in design of offshore systems.

Bernard Molin (Author)

9781009198042, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 5 January 2023

425 pages
25 x 17.6 x 2.9 cm, 0.94 kg

Newly updated and translated into English for the first time, this standalone handbook perfectly combines background and theory with real-world experiments. All key topics are covered, including environmental conditions, wave theories, hydrostatics, and wave and current loads, with emphasis on nonlinear wave body interaction. Focus is given to model testing, an important component in the design of offshore structures. Recent results on the hydrodynamics of perforated structures, moonpool and gap resonance, and third-order interaction effects, have been added to this updated version. Based on practical experience from multiple industry collaborations, combined with lectures that have been honed and improved over more than 30 years, the pedagogical, real-world approach in this book make it an ideal companion for graduate students and researchers as well as ocean engineers.

1. Introduction
2. Environmental conditions
3. Wave theories
4. Wave and current loads on slender bodies
5. Flow-induced instabilities
6. Large bodies. Linear theory
7. Large bodies. Second-order effects
8. Large bodies. Other nonlinear effects
9. Model testing
Appendix A. Introduction to potential flow theory
Appendix B. Hydrostatics
Appendix C. Damped mass spring system
Appendix D. The boundary integral equation method.

Subject Areas: Offshore engineering [TTSH], Automatic control engineering [TJFM], Mechanics of fluids [TGMF], Oceanography [seas RBKC], Fluid mechanics [PHDF]