Scaling strategies for multi-purpose floating structures physical modeling: state of art and new perspectives
Autor: | Carlo Ruzzo, Giovanni Malara, Sara Muggiasca, Liang Li, Maurizio Collu, Federico Taruffi, Marco Belloli, Giulio Brizzi, Felice Arena |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Physical models
Multi-purpose floating structures Computer science VM 020101 civil engineering Ocean Engineering 02 engineering and technology Floating fish net cages 01 natural sciences 010305 fluids & plasmas 0201 civil engineering The Blue Growth Farm 0103 physical sciences 14. Life underwater BGF Scaling Offshore wind turbines Physical model Froude scaling of floating structures business.industry H2020 Floating wave energy converters Similitude Cost reduction Offshore wind power 13. Climate action Scale (social sciences) Modular programming Systems engineering System integration business |
Zdroj: | Applied Ocean Research |
ISSN: | 0141-1187 |
Popis: | Multi-purpose floating platforms are emerging as a promising concept in ocean engineering applications, thanks to their capability of ensuring system integration, cost reduction and modularization. However, their increasing complexity requires the development of numerical tools, which need to be validated experimentally through adequate physical models. New challenges hence arise, since the subsystems integrated in the structure generally follow different scaling laws and may need relatively large physical models to achieve a reliable similitude between the full-scale structure and its physical model counterpart. The latter issue can be critical, because indoor tests in wave tanks and basins constrain the scale factors to the size of the available facilities. Open-sea experiments, albeit challenging because of the uncontrolled environmental conditions, could be a valid complement to the traditional indoor tests. This article proposes a review of the multi-physics scaling strategies for the subsystems usually embedded in multi-purpose floating platforms, i.e. floating support, mooring system, wind turbine, wave energy converter and aquaculture facilities, by providing a critical analysis on the relevance of the scaling factor and of the scaling strategy. The paper may also serve as a guide for practical applications involving one or several of the considered subsystems. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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