Recent improvements in capabilities of both hardware and software allow solving the coupled rigid body motions for the floating platform together with the fluid transport equations. This makes CFD a possible alternative or complement to model tests for predicting VIM performance. In addition, CFD allows simulating certain factors which cannot be addressed in scale model tests, and the two methods can ideally serve as cross-validation tools to bound the remaining uncertainties. Previous applications of CFD to Spar VIM predictions have shown promising results. Building on this, flow-induced motion simulations of multi-column floating platforms are being carried out using CFD as part of the R&D effort within Technip. The purpose of this paper is to present the results of two separate preliminary simulations applied to the prediction of vortex-induced motions of a TLP design and compare to the model test results.
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ASME 2011 30th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering
June 19–24, 2011
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering Division
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978-0-7918-4439-7
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CFD Simulation of Flow-Induced Motions of a Multi-Column Floating Platform
Kenneth Yeoh Hock Guan
Kenneth Yeoh Hock Guan
Technip, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Jang-Whan Kim
Technip, Houston, TX
Allan Magee
Technip, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Kenneth Yeoh Hock Guan
Technip, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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OMAE2011-49437, pp. 319-326; 8 pages
Published Online:
October 31, 2011
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Kim, J, Magee, A, & Guan, KYH. "CFD Simulation of Flow-Induced Motions of a Multi-Column Floating Platform." Proceedings of the ASME 2011 30th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. Volume 7: CFD and VIV; Offshore Geotechnics. Rotterdam, The Netherlands. June 19–24, 2011. pp. 319-326. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2011-49437
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