LUGNI CLAUDIO
(syllabus)
- Floating structure classification. - Hints on hydrostatics. - Hints on wave propagation in finite depth and deep water: linear and weakly nonlinear potential flow theory. - Floating structure dynamics: linear potential flow theory. Radiation and diffraction problems. Response Amplitude Operators. - Long-wave approximation in potential flow - Second-order wave loads: mean wave drift and slowly-varying wave loads. Newman’s approximation. Munk moment - Wave-drift damping. - Hints on fish hydrodynamics. - Wave loads on small volume structures. - Laminar flow, flow instability and turbulence transition. - Viscous flow around a circular cylinder in steady current and in waves. - Morison equation for steady current flow. Cross-flow principle. Extension to floating body in waves. - Drag coefficient of a circular cylinder: dependency on Reynolds and Keulegan-Carpenter numbers
(reference books)
O.M. Faltinsen: Sea Loads and Offshore Structures, Cambridge, 1995
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