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Offshore Report

CFD Simulation of a Fully Featured

Offshore Platform Model

BY DANIEL BARCAROLO, HYDROCEAN

FD simulations of off- zone, including the oil production plant, in high detail, CFD simulations relied primarily by French multinational Oil shore oil and gas plat- the accommodation block and any drill- on simpli? ed, de-featured models. Their & Gas company Total S.A., with en- forms are used to pre- ing equipment). The wind loads are used low ? delity meant that, when CFD was gineering management and additional dict the maximum wind as waves and current loads to design the used, the results needed to be validated funding from offshore engineering ? rm loads acting on the mooring of the structure, and can be sig- and re? ned through expensive, labor-in- DORIS Engineering, numerical aero and

Cstructure of the platform ni? cant in speci? c ocean areas. Because tensive fabrication and testing of physi- hydrodynamics specialist HydrOcean, topsides (the upper half of the platform, platform topside geometries were tradi- cal models in wind tunnels. subsidiary of Bureau Veritas Marine & above sea level and outside the splash tionally considered too complex to mesh But in a recent R&D project funded Offshore, succeeded in meshing a fully 44 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • APRIL 2017

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