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Jorn Pusen§ -— PuemAse Do NOT TAKE Away 1 EXAMPLE OF FPSO HYDRODYNAMICS DESIGN BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS VERSION RECORD SHEET TABLE OF CONTENTS ABBREVIATIONS REFERENCES .. 4. INTRODUCTION 1.4 FIELD OVERVIEW... 1.2 SCOPE OF DOCUMENT 1.3. VESSEL MAIN CHARACTERISTICS 1.4 PURPOSE OF HYDRODYNAMIC ANALYSES 2. METHOD OF ANALYSIS... 2.1 STAGES OF HYDRODYNAMIC DESIGN 2.2 CALCULATION PROCESS .. 2.3 ROLL MOTION... 2.4 NUMERICAL MODEL CALIBRATION 2.5 COMPUTATION OF RAO AND HYDRODYNAMIC PROPERTIE: 2.6 SAFETY MARGIN VS PROJECT STAGE .. 3. LOAD CASES... 3.1 WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION CALCULATION 3.2 FPSO LOADING CONDITIONS... 3.3. ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS. 3.4 VESSEL CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM 3.5 FPSO MOTION CALCULATIONS. 3.6 FPSO MODEL .. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. 3 ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. APPENDIX | —- FPSO LOADING CONDITIONS CoB CoG FPSO ABBREVIATIONS FPSO maximum breadth Centre of Buoyancy Centre of Gravity Roll Quadratic damping coefficient Floating Production Storage and Offloading (vessel) Metacentric Height Significant Wave Height Height of Centre of Buoyancy above vessel keel / bottom Height of Centre of Gravity above vessel keel / bottom Length between perpendicular “Quadratic Transfer FUNCHONS Response Amplitude Operator Root Mean Square Resonance period for a given motion ‘Spectrum Peak Period Zero Up-crossing period Umbilicals, Risers and Flowilnes Ship Displacement (weight) Wave Length ‘Seawater specific mass (kgim*)

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