Dynamics of a moored barge under regular and random waves

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 401-430

  Shashikala, A P ^a   Sundaravadivelu, R ^a   Ganapathy, C ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SINGLE POINT MOORING; STIFFNESS MATRIX; WATER WAVE EFFECTS; WIND EFFECTS;

RANDOM WAVES;

BARGES;

BARGES; MOORING SYSTEMS; WAVE EFFECTS;

EID: 0031149405     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0029-8018(96)00019-4     Document Type: Article

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