I am looking for a formula to help estimate the water particle velocity in irregular waves specified by Hs and Tp instead of H and T. As a catch,...
A mooring company mentions they use a load RAO method for estimating mooring loads (see "Load RAO method " here). I would like to get background...
I am looking for recommendations for textbooks on mooring design for complex moorings, such as 3-leg moorings for large buoys or large ships that...
I would like to calculate wave persistence statistics such as the expected duration that wave height would remain below a certain height...
A colleague said he expects a 1 metric tonne Danforth anchor in sand to have a 1:20 holding factor, and I'd like to understand where this...
I would like to work out the horizontal speed of the fastest breaking wave for a given sea state and water depth. Is there a formula for this? For...
I would love confirmation of my following assumption: the duration of a slam event scales with Froude scaling. So if I make a 1:10 scale model and...
I am interested in studies of slamming on the bottom face of a vertical cylinder. I have found articles looking at other shapes (spheres,...
We have a buoy that experiences slamming, and we would like to put an accelerometer on it to detect slamming events. I would like to know sampling...
Are there any rules or guidelines for how close buoys can be placed? These are large NDBC-style moored buoys, rather than buoys intended to moor...
I need to estimate the power output from vertically mounted solar panels on an ocean buoy. I have the downward solar radiation [W/m^2], sun angle,...
I am looking for the "typical" weight that a 20m mast could have. I just need a rough ballpark since this is for a non-sailboat application...
Please forgive a beginner's question. For a moored buoy, I am looking at its targeted roll period, which should be short enough that it can...
For a spar buoy of about 1m diameter and 10m draft, I am tasked with designing a mooring that will reduce the spar's pitch in moderate waves. The...
Let's say you have two moored structures, say boats on anchor with watch circle radii of 50 and 30m respectively, and you are figuring how far...
Apparently in shallow water the energy in waves can be redistributed by triad interactions among 3 different wave frequencies that add/subtract to...
A couple of references have mentioned that Airy or linear wave theory doesn't apply in 'very shallow' water depth, but they don't say how to...
For wave tank testing of a floating structure, I need to understand what a wave excitation test is, and how the test data is analyzed to extract...
I have a question related to the survival of a slender tall structure mounted on a 'vessel' which is compliant with the waves, i.e. pitching and...
To design floating buoyant structures, I use the package OrcaFlex. The OrcaFlex models end up being quite elaborate, for example there are many...