Modelling floating offshore units moored in broken ice: Model description

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 97-106

  Hansen, Edmond H ^a   Løset, Sveinung ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Broken ice field; Floating offshore units; Simulation model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRICTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); KINEMATICS; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOORING; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; PRODUCTION PLATFORMS; SEA ICE; VISCOELASTICITY;

COULOMB FRICTION CONTACT; DISCRETE ELEMENT MODELING;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING;

ICE; MODELING; OFFSHORE PLATFORM;

ICE; MODELING; OFFSHORE STRUCTURE;

EID: 0033391148     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-232X(99)00023-3     Document Type: Article

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