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| Originally Posted by Codger http://www.setsail.com/dashew/HI_CA_5.html
"As you probably know, we spent a lot of time modeling various upwind scenarios. Using tank testing and CFD analysis, one can come pretty close to the real world with single sets of waves. But when you have complex crossing situations, as we are in right now, most of the design input comes from experience. There is no accurate way to model what we've been going through."
I know that Hyundai and others have extremely complex sea state models. There is also a Norwegian company that has built offshore platforms that has performed some testing using models of seastates that are in the order of once a hundred year scenarios.
Are these models just not generally available? |
BC Research, which does a lot of wavetank testing, and is in your neighborhood (Vancouver), might be able to shed some light.