General Design of the Cylindrical FPSO in Deep water
There are many the technical challenges in the general design of cylindrical FPSO such as main dimension de-sign,hydro-dynamic analysis,mooring system design.The motion RAO of cylindrical FPSO with different cylinder diameter and heave plate diameter were compared numerically,the influence of key parameters for hull design and mooring system design were analyzed,so as to propose the steps of hydrodynamic test calibration analysis and the method of weight control.It was shown that the most critical parameters of the main dimension design are the diameter of the cylinder and the diameter of the heave plate;the smaller the diameter of the cylinder or the larger the diameter of the heave plate,the smaller the heave response is;the larger the diameter of the cylinder,the smaller the roll motion response is.The hydrodynamic analysis of cylindrical FPSO is suggested to carry out both frequency domain and time domain analysis.
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