Design of miniature floating platform for marginal fields
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2013.
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| author | Miao, Sha, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| author2 | Dick K.P. Yue and Yuming Liu. |
| author_facet | Dick K.P. Yue and Yuming Liu. Miao, Sha, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| author_sort | Miao, Sha, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| description | Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2013. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/816112019-04-11T09:21:38Z Design of miniature floating platform for marginal fields Miao, Sha, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dick K.P. Yue and Yuming Liu. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering. Mechanical Engineering. Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2013. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-136). This thesis presents the design of a novel type of miniature floating offshore platforms with a heave plate attached at the keel, suitable for developing deep-water marginal fields. This design features a small displacement, easy fabrication, reduced cost and a favourable motion performance in waves. The design process includes the preliminary estimation, hydrodynamic analysis and hull optimization. A self-developed model "Discrete Vortex Ring Model" (DVRM) to efficiently estimate the viscous drag due to the vortex shedding of the oscillatory heave plate is presented in details. This new model DVRM combined with the standard radiation/diffraction code WAMIT is used to analyse the effect of different geometric parameters on the motion behaviour of the platform. Finally, these two models are integrated into a genetic optimization algorithm to obtain a final optimal design. by Sha Miao. S.M. 2013-10-24T17:34:53Z 2013-10-24T17:34:53Z 2013 2013 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81611 858872005 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 136 p. application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Mechanical Engineering. Miao, Sha, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Design of miniature floating platform for marginal fields |
| title | Design of miniature floating platform for marginal fields |
| title_full | Design of miniature floating platform for marginal fields |
| title_fullStr | Design of miniature floating platform for marginal fields |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design of miniature floating platform for marginal fields |
| title_short | Design of miniature floating platform for marginal fields |
| title_sort | design of miniature floating platform for marginal fields |
| topic | Mechanical Engineering. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81611 |
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