Roll Damping Decay of a FPSO With Bilge Keel Available to Purchase

The roll damping decay is investigated for a Floating Production Storage and Offloanding (FPSO). For this purpose, a roll decay test of FPSO is simulated by means of the numerical solution of the incompressible two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations. The numerical results are compared with experimental data for validating the numerical scheme implemented. The simulations indicated the strong influence of the bilge radius in the damping coefficient of the FPSO section. Interesting results were obtained regarding the time series of the displacement of the body and vortex shedding around the bilge keel.