Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Symbols
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Environmental Conditions
- 3 Wave Theories
- 4 Wave and Current Loads on Slender Bodies
- 5 Flow-Induced Instabilities
- 6 Large Bodies: Linear Theory
- 7 Large Bodies: Second-Order Effects
- 8 Large Bodies: Other Nonlinear Effects
- 9 Model Testing
- Appendix A: Introduction to Potential Flow Theory
- Appendix B: Hydrostatics
- Appendix C: Damped Mass Spring System
- Appendix D: The Boundary Integral Equation Method
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- References
9 - Model Testing
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 January 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Symbols
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Environmental Conditions
- 3 Wave Theories
- 4 Wave and Current Loads on Slender Bodies
- 5 Flow-Induced Instabilities
- 6 Large Bodies: Linear Theory
- 7 Large Bodies: Second-Order Effects
- 8 Large Bodies: Other Nonlinear Effects
- 9 Model Testing
- Appendix A: Introduction to Potential Flow Theory
- Appendix B: Hydrostatics
- Appendix C: Damped Mass Spring System
- Appendix D: The Boundary Integral Equation Method
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- References
Summary
The last chapter is devoted to model tests. The basic principles of model testing are first presented, that is the Froude scaling law, and the issued related to the biases in Reynolds number. A review is made of experimental facilities used in ocean engineering, and of the wave generation and absorption principles. Issues related to confinement effects, such as sloshing, seiching, Benjamin-Feir instability, emission of free harmonics, etc., are extensively covered. Recommendations are made on specifications and exploitation of model tests.
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- Offshore Structure Hydrodynamics , pp. 332 - 372Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023