About the Authors |
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Preface |
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Acknowledgements |
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2.1 Ship-shaped Offshore Structures |
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7 | (3) |
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2.2 Oil and Gas Offshore Platforms |
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10 | (3) |
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2.3 Offshore Wind Turbines |
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13 | (9) |
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2.4 Wave Energy Converters |
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22 | (6) |
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2.5 Tidal Energy Converters |
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28 | (4) |
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2.6 Combined Offshore Energy Systems |
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32 | (3) |
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2.7 Multipurpose Offshore Structures and Systems |
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35 | (1) |
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2.8 Submerged Floating Tunnels |
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36 | (3) |
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39 | (3) |
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2.10 Aquaculture and Fish Farms |
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42 | (9) |
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44 | (7) |
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3 Offshore Environmental Conditions |
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51 | (1) |
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51 | (4) |
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3.2.1 Basic Characteristics of Free Surface Normal Waves |
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52 | (2) |
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54 | (1) |
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3.2.3 Wave Propagation in Space |
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3.3.1 Global Wind Pattern |
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55 | (2) |
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58 | (3) |
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3.4.2 Wind-driven Currents |
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3.4.2.1 Global Wind-driven Currents |
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59 | (1) |
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3.4.2.2 Longshore Currents |
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3.4.2.4 Upwelling Currents |
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60 | (1) |
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3.5 Joint Distribution of Waves and Winds |
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61 | (7) |
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3.6 Oceanographic and Bathymetric Aspects |
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68 | (3) |
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71 | (4) |
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3.8 Extreme Environmental Conditions |
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75 | (4) |
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3.9 Environmental Impact of Offshore Structures' Application |
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79 | (8) |
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82 | (5) |
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4 Hydrodynamic and Aerodynamic Analyses of Offshore Structures |
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87 | (1) |
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92 | (3) |
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4.3 Wave Loads on Offshore Structures |
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4.3.1 Wave Loads Induced by Inviscid Flows |
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4.3.1.1 Inviscid Loads Due to Forced Oscillation of an Offshore Structure (Concept of Added Mass and Damping Coefficients) |
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4.3.1.2 Added Mass and Damping Coefficients in the Presence of a Free Surface |
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4.3.1.3 Considering Diffraction Effects on Calculating Wave Loads |
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104 | (2) |
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4.4 Tides and Currents Kinematics |
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107 | (2) |
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4.5 Current Loads on Offshore Structures |
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110 | (5) |
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111 | (2) |
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4.6.2 Extreme Wind Conditions |
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4.6.3 Wind Speed Variation with Height |
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4.7 Wind Loads on Offshore Structures |
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115 | (2) |
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4.8 Aerodynamic Analysis of Offshore Wind Turbines |
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117 | (2) |
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4.8.2 Effects of Wind Turbine Rotation on Wind Thrust Force |
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119 | (2) |
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4.8.3 Blade Element Momentum Theory |
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124 | (3) |
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5 Fundamentals of Structural Analysis |
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5.1.1 Structural Components |
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128 | (6) |
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134 | (5) |
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5.2 Structural Analysis of Beams |
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139 | (2) |
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5.2.2 Beams under Torsion |
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147 | (5) |
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152 | (3) |
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155 | (4) |
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5.3 Mathematical Models for Structural Dynamics of Beams |
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159 | (7) |
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5.3.1 Bernoulli-Euler Beam Theory |
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161 | (5) |
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5.4 Frame Structures and Matrix Analysis |
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5.5.3 Mathematical Models for Bending of Plates |
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178 | (5) |
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6 Numerical Methods in Offshore Structural Mechanics |
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183 | (5) |
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6.3 Time-Domain and Frequency-Domain Analysis |
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6.5 Finite Element Method |
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6.7 Extreme Response Analysis and Prediction |
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201 | (3) |
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6.8 Testing and Validation of Offshore Structures |
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7 Numerical Methods in Offshore Fluid Mechanics |
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7.2 Potential Flow Theory Approach |
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7.2.1 Three-dimensional Problem |
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7.2.2 Numerical Consideration |
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224 | (1) |
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7.3.1 Discretization of the Navier-Stokes Equation on Rectangular Structured Grids |
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7.3.4 Pressure Term and Mass Conservation Equation |
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228 | (1) |
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7.3.5 Solving Navier--Stokes Equations |
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229 | (1) |
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230 | (3) |
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7.3.7 The Effects of Free Surface |
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7.3.8 Volume of Fluid Method |
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7.3.10 Discretization of Level Set Function |
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237 | (3) |
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7.3.11 Discretization of Reinitialization Equation |
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240 | (7) |
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7.3.12 Studying Solid--Fluid Interaction |
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247 | (5) |
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7.3.13 Immersed Boundary Methods |
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242 | (2) |
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7.3.14 Discretization of the NS Equation in a Mapped Coordinate System |
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244 | (4) |
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7.3.15 Grid Generation in a Mapped Coordinate System: Stretched Grid |
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248 | (1) |
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7.3.16 Grid Generation in the Mapped Coordinate System: Body-Fitted Grids |
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249 | (8) |
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7.3.17 Body-Fitted Grid Generation by Using Unstructured Grids |
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257 | (5) |
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252 | (3) |
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8 Mooring and Foundation Analysis |
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8.1 Mooring Considerations |
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255 | (12) |
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261 | (2) |
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263 | (4) |
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267 | (8) |
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Index |
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