Effect of coupling of mooring lines and risers on the design values for a turret moored FPSO in deep water of the Gulf of Mexico

Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2001, Pages 480-487

  Wichers, J E W ^a   Devlin, P V ^a  

^a MARIN USA Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled; Deepwater; FPSO; Global motions; Mooting forces; Riser tension

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; DAMPING; HULLS (SHIP); HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOORING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WATER INJECTION;

COUPLED DYNAMIC SYSTEMS;

MARINE RISERS;

EID: 0034741163     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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