Effects of mooring line drag damping on response statistics of vessels excited by first- and second-order wave forces

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 667-686

  Sarkar, A ^a   Eatock Taylor, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cable dynamics; Drag force; Equivalent linearisation; Floating platform; Mooring line; Non Gaussian response; Second order wave

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; DRAG; LINEARIZATION; MOORING CABLES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; WATER WAVES;

CABLE DYNAMICS; FLOATING PLATFORM; SECOND ORDER WAVE;

PRODUCTION PLATFORMS;

MOORING LINE; VESSEL; WAVE FORCE;

MOORING SYSTEM; VESSEL; WAVE ACTION;

EID: 0033990849     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-8018(99)00014-1     Document Type: Article

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