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WAVE FORCE CALCUATION ON A FIXED VERTICAL CYLINDER

1.0 Inputs

Wave height Hw 6m

Wave perod Tw 10sec

Water depth h 100m


kg
Sea water density 1030
3
m
Diameter of cylinder D 750mm

Coefficient of drag Cd 0.65

Coefficient of inertia Cm 1.6

2.0 Wave length computation


2
1.56 Tw
Deep water wave length L m L 156 m
2
sec
2
g Tw
h
f ( L) tanh 2
2 L

L root ( L f ( L) L) L 155.979 m

3.0 Wave parameters Computation


2
Wave frequency
Tw

2
Wave number k
L

L m
Wave celerity Cw Cw 15.598
Tw s

2
D h 3
Voume of cylinder under water Vol Vol 44.179 m
4

4.0 Input phase angle

2
Phase angle 0 2
30

Hw
Free surface profile ( ) cos ( )
2

Water depth at each phase angle s1 ( ) h ( )


5.0 Wave particle kinematics computation

Hw cos ( )
Horizontal velocity u ( ) cosh ( k s1 ( ) )
Tw sinh [ k ( h) ]

2
2 Hw sin ( )
Horizontal acceleration ua ( ) cosh ( k s1 ( ) )
2 sinh [ k ( h) ]
Tw

Hw sin ( )
vertical velocity v ( ) sinh ( k s1 ( ) )
Tw sinh [ k ( h) ]

2
2 Hw cos ( )
vertical acceleration va ( ) sinh ( k s1 ( ) )
2 sinh [ k ( h) ]
Tw

6.0 Force Computation

6.1 Horizontal force

22 H h ( )
Horizontal

FHI ( ) Cm D
2 w sin ( )
cosh ( k s1) ds1
inertia force 4 T 2 sinh [ k ( h) ]
0
w

2 h ( )

D Hw
Horizontal FHD ( ) Cd cos ( ) cos ( ) cosh ( k s1) cosh ( k s1) ds1
2 Tw sinh [ k ( h) ]
drag force 0

Total horizontal FTH ( ) FHI ( ) FHD ( )


force

6.2 Vertical force

2 2 H
h ( )
2 w
Vertical FVI ( ) Cm D cos ( ) sinh ( k s1) ds1
inertia force 4 T 2 sinh [ k ( h) ]
0
w
2 h ( )
D Hw
Vertical FVD ( ) Cd sin ( ) sin ( ) sinh ( k s1) sinh ( k s1) ds1
2 Tw sinh [ k ( h) ]
drag force 0

Total vertical FTV ( ) FVI ( ) FVD ( )


force

2 2
Resultant force FR ( ) FTH ( ) FTV ( )
u ( ) ua ( ) v ( ) va ( ) FR ( )
2.128 m 0 m 0 m -1.337 m 27.36 kN
2.076 0.277 2 0.441 -1.304 2 28.915
s s
1.924 0.538 s 0.856 -1.208 s 28.464
1.683 0.768 1.222 -1.057 26.621
1.368 0.955 1.519 -0.859 24.408
1.002 1.09 1.734 -0.629 22.894
0.605 1.17 1.861 -0.38 22.655
0.2 1.194 1.898 -0.125 23.476
-0.195 1.164 1.851 0.122 24.49
-0.562 1.086 1.727 0.353 24.161
-0.888 0.966 1.537 0.557 22.677
-1.164 0.812 1.292 0.731 20.702
-1.384 0.632 1.005 0.869 19.014
-1.543 0.432 0.686 0.969 18.291
-1.639 0.219 0.348 1.029 18.786
-1.672 0 0 1.049 20.215

4 2

u( ) 2 v( )
0
ua( ) va ( )
0

2 2
0 5 10 0 5 10

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