Current effects on a moored floating platform in a sea state

Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE

Volumn 4, Issue , 2008, Pages 433-444

  Stansberg, Carl Trygve ^a  

^a SINTEF OCEAN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT EFFECT; CURRENT GENERATION; CURRENT VELOCITY; DRIFT FORCE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLOATING PLATFORMS; IRREGULAR WAVES; LINE TENSION; M-WAVES; MOORING LINE; NON-GAUSSIAN; PLATFORM MOTION; RETURN CURRENT; SCALED MODELS; SEA STATE; SURGE MOTIONS; SWAY PERIOD; VISCOUS EFFECT; VORTEX INDUCED MOTIONS; WAVE DRIFT; WAVE-DRIFT DAMPING;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; DAMPING; DRILLING PLATFORMS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; PRODUCTION PLATFORMS; SEMISUBMERSIBLES; VORTEX FLOW;

MOORING;

EID: 77958021246     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2008-57621     Document Type: Conference Paper

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