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Vincenzo Piscopo, Antonio Scamardella, Giovanni Battista Rossi, Francesco Crenna and Marta Berardengo
The fatigue assessment of mooring lines for floating offshore wind turbines represents a challenging issue not only for the reliable design of the stationkeeping system but also for the economic impact on the installation and maintenance costs over the e...
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Sarat Chandra Mohapatra and C. Guedes Soares
A hydroelastic model associated with the interaction between a surface wave and a floating circular structure connected with mooring lines in finite water depth is developed using BIEM. The BIEM solution is achieved using free surface Green?s function an...
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Bruno Paduano, Nicolás Faedo and Giuliana Mattiazzo
In the pathways towards the commercialisation of wave energy systems, the need for reliable mathematical models is of paramount importance for the design and synthesis of model-based control techniques to maximise the performance of wave energy converter...
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Climent Molins, Pau Trubat, Xavi Gironella and Alexis Campos
One of the main aspects when testing floating offshore platforms is the scaled mooring system, particularly with the increased depths where such platforms are intended. The paper proposes the use of truncated mooring systems to emulate the real mooring s...
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Kim Nielsen and Jonas Bjerg Thomsen
The critical function of keeping a floating Wave Energy Converter in position is done by a mooring system. Several WECs have been lost due to failed moorings, indicating that extreme loads, reliability and durability are very important aspects. An unders...
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Donald R. Noble, Michael O?Shea, Frances Judge, Eider Robles, Rodrigo Martinez, Faryal Khalid, Philipp R. Thies, Lars Johanning, Yann Corlay, Roman Gabl, Thomas A. D. Davey, Nithiananthan Vejayan and Jimmy Murphy
Marine renewable energy (MRE) is still an emerging technology. As such, there is still a lack of mature standards and guidance for the development and testing of these devices. The sector covers a wide range of disciplines, so there is a need for more co...
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Mathew B. R. Topper, Sterling S. Olson and Jesse D. Roberts
Hydrokinetic tidal energy converter (TEC) technology is yet to become cost competitive with other renewable energy sources. Understanding the interaction between energy production and the costs incurred harvesting that energy may unlock the economic pote...
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Daanish Mustafa and Sarah J. Halvorson
Water resource geography has undergone a considerable transformation since its original moorings in engineering and the pure sciences. As this Special Issue demonstrates, many intellectual and practical gains are being made through a politicized practice...
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Ling Qu, Shuangxi Guo, Shengqi Zhou, Yuanzheng Lu, Mingquan Zhu, Xianrong Cen, Di Li, Wei Zhou, Tao Xu, Miao Sun and Rui Zeng
The aim of this study is to better understand diffusive convection (DC) and its role in the upper ocean dynamic environment and sea ice melting in the Canada Basin. Based on a moored dataset with 6737 profiles collected from August 2003 to August 2011 in...
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Tzu-Hsun Lin and Ray-Yeng Yang
Floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) are one of the innovative solutions to achieve net-zero emissions. Given that Taiwan has abundant wind power resources in its western waters and wind farms are evaluated as potential sites, a strategic emphasis on ...
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Dapeng Zhang, Bowen Zhao, Haoyu Jiang and Keqiang Zhu
The conventional mooring positioning technique is cost-effective; however, it shows poor maneuverability and positioning precision. In this study, to calculate the mooring tension, mooring cables were discretized into lumped mass models using the lumped ...
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Idris Ahmed Ja'e, Montasir Osman Ahmed Ali, Anurag Yenduri, Zafarullah Nizamani and Akihiko Nakayama
The behavior of different mooring line materials has a significant influence on the behavior of the mooring system and, consequently, the dynamic responses of the floating platform. Although there have been previous studies on FPSOs and their mooring sys...
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Tarkan Aslan Bilge, Nicolas Fournier, Davi Mignac, Laura Hume-Wright, Laurent Bertino, Timothy Williams and Steffen Tietsche
In response to declining sea ice cover, human activity in the Arctic is increasing, with access to the Arctic Ocean becoming more important for socio-economic reasons. Accurate knowledge of sea ice conditions is therefore becoming increasingly important ...
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Chiemela Victor Amaechi, Facheng Wang and Jianqiao Ye
The application of marine bonded hoses has increased in recent times, due to the need for more flexible conduits and flexible applications in the offshore industry. These marine structures include Catenary Anchor Leg Moorings (CALM) buoys and ocean monit...
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Kun Li, Natalia A. Sidorovskaia, Thomas Guilment, Tingting Tang and Christopher O. Tiemann
Passive acoustic monitoring has been successfully used to study deep-diving marine mammal populations. To assess regional population trends of sperm whales in the northern Gulf of Mexico (GoM), including impacts of the Deepwater Horizon platform oil spil...
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Chiemela Victor Amaechi, Facheng Wang and Jianqiao Ye
Recent design challenges in ocean observations, energy storage, offloading/discharging, and loading operations in both the offshore-renewable industry have led to advances in the application of catenary anchor leg moorings (CALM) buoys. Due to different ...
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Angélica Romero-Arteaga, Amaia Ruiz de Alegría-Arzaburu and Bernardo Esquivel-Trava
Extreme weather events such as hurricanes are expected to become more severe with the human-induced increase in average global temperatures, exacerbating the risk of major damage. Efforts to predict these events typically require detailed hydrodynamic da...
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