Measurements of static and dynamic mooring line damping and their importance for floating WEC devices

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 14-15, 2007, Pages 1918-1934

  Johanning, Lars ^a   Smith, George H ^b   Wolfram, Julian ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamic mooring line response; Floating wave energy converter; Mooring line damping

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC MOORING LINE RESPONSE; FLOATING WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER; MOORING LINE DAMPING;

DAMPING; DYNAMICS; MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; MOORING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OCEAN CURRENTS; TIDES; WATER WAVES;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

DAMPING; DYNAMICS; MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; MOORING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OCEAN CURRENTS; TIDES; WATER WAVES; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

DAMPING; DESIGN; FLOATING OFFSHORE STRUCTURE; MOORING SYSTEM; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; WATER DEPTH; WAVE ENERGY;

EID: 34447507893     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2007.04.002     Document Type: Article

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