Hydrodynamic coefficients of a simplified floating system of gravity cage in waves

作     者：Chang-wen WU Fu-kun GUI Yu-cheng LI Wei-huan FANG 

作者机构：Marine Science School Zhejiang Ocean University Zhoushan 316000 China State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering Dalian University of Technology Dalian 116024 China College of Animal Sciences Zhejiang University Hangzhou 310058 China 

出 版 物：《Journal of Zhejiang University-Science A(Applied Physics & Engineering)》 (浙江大学学报（英文版）A辑（应用物理与工程）)

年 卷 期：2008年第9卷第5期

页      面：654-663页

核心收录：

学科分类：0810[工学-信息与通信工程] 080704[工学-流体机械及工程] 080103[工学-流体力学] 08[工学] 0807[工学-动力工程及工程热物理] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 0801[工学-力学（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：the Hi-Tech Research and Development Pro-gram (863) of China (Nos. 2006AA100301 and 2006BAD09A13) the Open Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Coastal Offshore Engineering of Dalian University of Technology (No. LP0604), China 

主　　题：Gravity cage Floating system Hydrodynamic coefficients Waves 

摘      要：Numerical simulation and experimental tests were carried out to examine the hydrodynamic behaviors of a double-column floating system of gravity cage under wave conditions. A floating system of gravity cage can be treated as a small-sized floating structure when compared with the wavelengths. The main problem in calculating the wave loads on the small-sized floating structure is to obtain the reasonable force coefficients, which may differ from a submerged structure. In this paper, the floating system of gravity cage is simplified to a 2D problem, where the floating system is set symmetrically under wave conditions. The motion equations were deduced under wave conditions and a specific method was proposed to resolve the problem of wave forces acting on a small-sized floating system of gravity cage at water surface. Results of the numerical method were compared with those from model tests and the hydrodynamic coefficients Cn and Cr were studied. It is found that Cn ranges from 0.6 to 1.0 while Cr is between 0.4 and 0.6 in this study. The results are useful for research on the hydrodynamic behavior of the deep-water gravity sea cages.