... in the optimization problem from the start, if possible. 22 02 2009 31 10 2009 03 11 2010 03 11 2010 damping force control harmonic oscillators Kalman filters machinery marine systems motion control ocean waves optimal control predictive control wave equations reactive...

... Vorticity for V INJ = 4 × freestream 18 07 2006 09 02 2007 vortices Navier-Stokes equations flow instability stagnation flow channel flow motion control offshore installations It is important to realize that these examples of excessive VIM are not indicative...

... ). Notice that these chaotic attractors are stable in the sense that as t → ∞ , all trajectories of the system tend towards them. 14 10 2005 03 10 2006 motion control marine engineering offshore installations nonlinear differential equations Kalman filters stochastic...

.... Riggs. 01 July 2002 01 May 2003 02 03 2004 offshore installations ocean waves stability motion control This paper is part of two years of research and analysis as a part of a multi-faceted study on the Mobile Offshore Base (MOB) Transit Draft Dynamics and Stability...

...: A. Fernandes. 01 June 2001 01 June 2002 22 10 2002 hydrodynamics engineering modelling motion control ships FPSO Maneuvering Coefficients PMM-Captive Model Tests Current Still Water The mean displacement and the low frequency motions of a FPSO mostly determine...

... MECHANICS AND ARCTIC ENGINEERING . Manuscript received by the ASME OOAE Division, June 2001; final revision, January 2002. Guest Associate Editor: S. Chakrabarti. 01 June 2001 01 January 2002 22 10 2002 modelling stability ships engineering motion control Offloading FPSO...

... manuscript received January 2001. Associate Editor: J. Falzarano. 14 February 2000 04 December 2000 01 January 2001 rolling ocean waves ships damping stability motion control Since the early 1950s 1 2 3 , a number of researchers investigated the parametrically...

... position control stability motion control dynamics Station-keeping of ships and other floating production systems can be achieved via mooring and dynamic positioning. In recent years, the design problem of mooring FPSOs has gained considerable attention as the water depth of oil reserves, gas...