Fluid Structure Interactions Research Group

Body Non Linear 3D Hydroelasticity

Alberto C. Chapchap acc1e09@soton.ac.uk - School of Engineering Sciences Ship Science Supervisors Professor Pandeli Temarel

Description and Goal The aim of the proposed work is to include nonlinearities associated with radiation, diffraction and incident waves in three-dimensional (3D) hydroelasticity analysis using the so called body-nonlinear approach, namely, flat and linearized free surface and the corresponding deformed body. The main objectives are: 1- To develop the body-nonlinear 3D seakeeping problem, in the time domain, using Rankine source distribution, as a preamble to the extension to 3D hydroelasticity.

2- To resolve numerical issues associated with accurate description of the entire hull surface, detection of the instantaneous free surface, deformation of the body (including distortions), time marching scheme and radiation conditions.
3- To extend (1) to the unified (rigid body motions and distortions) 3D hydroelasticity. 4- To verify both seakeeping and hydroelasticity predictions against available experimental measurements and other numerical predictions, for a mono- and a multi-hulled vessel.

Figure 2: Slamming and green water loads (upper figure) and a mesh idealization of a flexible hull with large distortions

Applications Importance of Non Linear Effects Problems of interest: Springing slamming (whipping) extreme loads prediction fatigue assessment Floating Structures in which the non linear effects can be relevant: VLCCs FPSOs multihull vessels ULCS Offshore Transfer Operations

Future Work Hydrodynamic description of the exact free surface and body surface boundary conditions Large Amplitude Motion Problem (LAMP) for a rigid body travelling on the seaway Extension of the non linear rigid body fluid interaction model to a non linear hydroelasticity model

Figure 1: Comparison between linear and non linear 2D hydroeslasticity analysis of the heave and pitch motions, bow acceleration at 0.85L, midship bending moment and shear forces at 0.75L for the S175 container ship travelling in regular head waves presented by Park & Temarel (2007).

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