Dynamic analysis of a floating spherical buoy fastened by mooring cables

X Zhu, WS Yoo - Ocean Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
A numerical model is constructed for a floating spherical buoy fastened by mooring cables.
Two cables are distributed on the two sides of the buoy with a symmetric layout. The tops of …

Nonlinear analysis for ship-generated waves interaction with mooring line/riser systems

Y Cheng, C Ji, G Zhai, G Oleg - Marine Structures, 2018 - Elsevier
A time-domain hybrid finite element-boundary element (FE-BE) method is developed to
investigate nonlinear interaction between ship waves and slender structures. The ship …

Numerical modeling of a spar platform tethered by a mooring cable

X Zhu, WS Yoo - Chinese journal of mechanical engineering, 2015 - Springer
Virtual simulation is an economical and efficient method in mechanical system design.
Numerical modeling of a spar platform, tethered by a mooring cable with a spherical joint is …

Dynamic Analysis of a Moored Spar Platform in a Uniform Current: Fluid Load Prediction Using a Surrogate Model

X Wei, X Zhu, R Cao, J Wang, X Li, Q Li… - Journal of Marine Science …, 2024 - mdpi.com
A moored spar platform, equipped with various instruments, serves as a crucial tool in
hydrological monitoring. However, conducting dynamic analyses of a single spar that …

Numerical modeling of a spherical buoy moored by a cable in three dimensions

X Zhu, WS Yoo - Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 2016 - Springer
Floating facilities have been studied based on the static analysis of mooring cables over the
past decades. To analyze the floating system of a spherical buoy moored by a cable with a …

Flexible dynamic analysis of an offshore wind turbine installed on a floating spar platform

X Zhu, WS Yoo - Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Flexible dynamic analysis is a critical process in designing offshore wind turbines that are
composed of several huge components. This process was implemented with a hybrid …

A Global Shape Function Method for Dynamic Analysis of Mooring Systems

F Liu, S You - International Conference on Offshore …, 2024 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
A new global shape function (GSF) based dynamic analysis method for mooring systems of
floating structures is proposed, aiming at securing a robust solution to the existing trade-off …

[PDF][PDF] Verification of a numerical simulation code for underwater chain mooring

X Zhu, W Yoo - Archive of Mechanical Engineering, 2016 - psjd.icm.edu.pl
Numerical simulation is an economical and effective method in the field of marine
engineering. The dynamics of mooring cables has been analysed by a numerical simulation …

[PDF][PDF] Verification of numerical simulation codes for underwater catenary chain

XQ Zhu, WS Yoo - 2015 - congress.cimne.com
Virtual simulation is a ecconomical and effective method in mechanical system design. This
paper aims at verifing the accuracy of the numerical simulation for underwater catenary …