Wave Drift Damping Computed by Higher Order Boundary Element Method
木下健、朱栄、鮑偉光
KINOSHITA Takeshi, ZHU Rong and BAO Weiguang
東京大学生産技術研究所
Institute of Industrial Science
The University of Tokyo
Keywords: Slow drift motion, Wave drift damping, HEM
ABSTRACT
Large floating structures moored in ocean have a long period of resonance due to the weak restoring forces offered by the mooring system. It is easy to induce large amplitude of excursion in horizontal plane because the damping caused by wave-making, vortex-shedding and friction is quite small. Then, the wave drift damping plays an important role in predicting this slow drift motion, It has been shown by the recent semi-analytical researches that the calculated results are in good agreement with the experimental data. In the present work, the boundary value of interaction between problem waves and current is solved by the hybrid higher order boundary element method and the wave drift damping is then computed. The results for a truncated circular cylinder are compared with the semi-analytical solution. A series calculation is carried out for ellipsoids with different breadth and draught to investigate the effects on the wave drift damping.