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Establishing wind loads using CFD
Dec 7, 2020
Reading time 6 minutes
With the increasing size of offshore structures, wind loads are becoming more and more important when designing vessels for operational conditions. ...
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Current Status of Wind Load Calculations with CFD
Jun 10, 2018
In this paper the current status is presented for accurate and fast determination of wind load coefficients using Computational Fluid Dynamics ...
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Predicting wind loads on single vessels and in side by side offloading configuration for FPSO and shuttle tanker using CFD
Jun 10, 2018
This paper presents the results of the wind loads on typical offshore vessels at model scale 1:250 obtained with CFD simulations. A FPSO, shuttle ...
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Wind Shielding Estimation of a Vessel in Side by Side Configuration using Disturbed Velocity Field from CFD
Feb 14, 2018
When two vessels are in a side-by-side configuration, the vessel in the wake experiences significantly lower wind forces. This phenomenon is known ...
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Determining Thruster-Hull Interaction for a Drill-Ship Using CFD
Jun 25, 2017
In this paper CFD results are presented for the thrusterhull interaction effects for a drillship with 6 azimuthing thrusters. The results using ...
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CFD benchmark study from the Wind Load Joint Industry Project
May 1, 2017
Wind loads represent an important contribution to the design loads of large floating offshore structures during installation, normal operation and ...
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Christian VeldhuisTeam Leader Ships - Simulation & Development | Senior Project Manager | Research coordinator Zero Emission Shipping
Christian VeldhuisTeam Leader Ships - Simulation & Development | Senior Project Manager | Research coordinator Zero Emission Shipping