Modelling and Simulation of Vessel Alongside Replenishment Motion Response Based on Sea Conditions Analysis

Abstract

Offshore accurate replenishment technology is a vital basement of conducting ocean research and deep ocean exploitation for every advanced country. However, It’s necessary to compensate waving for ensuring the security and accuracy of offshore project due to the fact that wave makes vessel generate 6-DOF motions. This paper set offshore accurate supplying for vessels as the background, basing on Froude-Krylov assumption, to do research on 6-DOF motion responses of different sea conditions. This paper builds the vessel motion response formulas on the basis of the 3-dimensional potential theory and then resolve it by AQWA. The simulation results indicate the regularity of vessel motions, which can be considered as requirement indicators during designing AHC (Active Heaving Compensation) system.