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EXAMPLE OF
FPSO HYDRODYNAMICS
DESIGN BRIEFTABLE 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 ..
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APPENDIX | —- FPSO LOADING CONDITIONSCoB
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*)