Verification of Numerical Wave Tank Predictions for Multi-Directional Seas

该奖项为德克萨斯a&m大学/德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的工程研究中心提供资金，名为“海上技术研究中心”（OTRC），与麻省理工学院（MIT）的研究人员合作。挪威科技大学（NTNU）和MARINTEK （NTNU的商业/研究型波池操作），对这些机构的数值波池模拟器和波池实验的分析结果进行基准测试。将OTRC、MIT和NTNU开发的数值波槽和算法的结果与OTRC和MARINTEK使用挪威石油公司STATOIL提供的圆柱体和迷你张力腿平台进行的物理波槽测试的实验数据进行基准比较。这种基准测试将导致改进数值波槽建模和改进物理波盆中的波运动学，用于重现多向海况和在侧反射条件和影响下作用于结构的力。最终，发展良好的数值波槽将能够补充或取代一些非常昂贵的物理模型试验。

9720427 Roesset This award provides funding for the Engineering Research Center at Texas A&M University/University of Texas at Austin entitled "Offshore Technology Research Center" (OTRC) to work with researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and MARINTEK (NTNU's commercial/research wave basin operation) to benchmark analytical results from numerical wave basin simulators and wave basin experiments at these institutions. Benchmarking will be done comparing the results of the numerical wave tanks and algorithms developed at OTRC, MIT, and NTNU with experimental data from physical wave basin tests at OTRC and MARINTEK using a cylinder and a mini tension leg platform provided by the Norwegian oil company STATOIL. This benchmarking will lead to improved numerical wave tank modeling and improved wave kinematics in a physical wave basin used to reproduce multidirectional sea states and the forces acting on structures under the conditions and effects of side reflections. Eventually, well-developed numerical wave tanks will be able to complement or replace a number of very expensive physical model tests.