Applied Hydrodynamics of Floating Offshore Structures

Houston, Monday October 8 – Wednesday October 10, 2018

Short interactive course

Every year MARIN organizes its full course ‘Hydrodynamics of Floating Offshore Structures’ at its Wageningen
facilities in the Netherlands. Since 2008 there is a Houston version as well. The participants after the courses: “Great
and interesting course, thanks!”, “Fantastic - great refresher!”, “I would definitely recommend this course to my
colleagues”. This was the reason to organize its short and applied version again in 2018.

This intensive and interactive
course will be held at 4203
Montrose Blvd. The costs for the
course “Hydrodynamics of Floating
Offshore Structures” are $ 2,400
including all documentation and
lunches. As we want to stimulate
interaction between the lecturers
and the participants, the number of
participants is limited to 12 this
year, so an early registration is
recommended.
The course gives an overview of the latest experiences in a broad range of
important fields, such as extreme metocean conditions (hurricane waves, loop
currents, wind squalls), motion analysis, wave impact and green water loads,
Dynamic Positioning (DP), coupled mooring analysis, offloading operations,
shallow water mooring, and deep water model testing of Spars, Semis, TLPs and
FPSOs. The course is given by a team of experts from the MARIN Houston and
Wageningen offices:
Arjen Koop William Otto Arjan Voogt

 Wave frequency  Low frequency motions  Deep water model

motions  Coupled mooring testing
 CFD for Offshore analysis  Extreme wind, waves
Applications  Offshore lifting and current
 Vortex Induced Motions operations  Green water loading
 Extreme wave loads on  Dynamic Positioning  Offloading operations
TLPs and semis
To register or to ask for more
information, please contact: The lectures will be supported by a dedicated case study which is both challenging
Saskia van de Peppel (Course and fun. During the course and case study there will be a lot of time to interact with
Coordinator), +31 317 493289, the MARIN team. The course notes contain the full set of information as presented
courses@marin.nl or register online at: during the course.
www.marin.nl/courses
Course program Houston ‘Applied Hydrodynamics of Floating Offshore Structures’ 2018
Time MONDAY October 8 TUESDAY October 9 WEDNESDAY October 10
8:30 Welcome and course introduction
9:00
9:15 Review of wave frequency motion theory Vortex induced motions of platforms Offloading operations:
and its applications single point, tandem and side-by-side
9:30
9:45
10.00 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
10:15
10:30 Extreme environments: hurricane waves, Extreme wave and airgap problems of semi-
loop currents and wind squalls submersibles and TLP’s
10:45
11:00
Analysis of mooring systems
11:15
11:30 Green Water on FPSOs Dynamic Positioning
11:45
12:00
12:15
12:30
Lunch Lunch Lunch
12:45
13:00
13:15
13:30
Case study Ship motions Case Study Mooring Case Study DP
13:45
14:00
14:15
14:30 CFD for Offshore Applications Verification of deepwater systems Offshore lift operations
by model testing and truncation
14:45
15:00
15:15
Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
15:30
15:45
Introduction Stability
16:00
16:15
16:30
16:45 ‘Course contest’: Production Course summary and social
17:00
‘Course contest’: Design
17:15
17:30
17:45
18:00
18:15
CFD for Offshore Applications
Houston, Thursday October 11 – Friday October 12, 2018
Short interactive course
We share our latest experience in CFD application for offshore engineering and renewable energy applications.
This interactive course will be held
at 4203 Montrose Blvd. The costs
for the course “CFD for Offshore
Applications” are $ 1,600 including
all documentation and lunches. As
we want to stimulate interaction
between the lecturers and the
participants, the number of
participants is limited to 12 this
year, so an early registration is
recommended.
To register or to ask for more
information, please contact:
Saskia van de Peppel (Course
Coordinator), +31 317 493289,
courses@marin.nl or register online at:
www.marin.nl/courses
Reliable and accurate numerical simulation of fluid flows is vital to the maritime
sector. The capabilities of Computational Fluid Dynamics has increased
significantly over the last decades and it has become a reliable engineering tool
for maritime applications. Many of our clients have expressed interest in gaining
better insight and quality control of CFD applications. For this reason, MARIN
developed a new course to share our accumulated knowledge and experience in
CFD for maritime applications. This course is based on our day-to-day experience
in CFD application in our services to the maritime industry. In this course an
overview is presented of best practises for specific offshore and renewable energy
applications in combination with hands-on exercises.
Arjan Koop Patrick Schrijvers
 CFD theory  CFD application for current loads, wind loads,
 CFD applications for VIM thruster-hull interaction and wave impact
 Low frequency motions positioning
During the course and case study there will be a lot of time to interact with the MARIN
team. The course notes contain the full set of information as presented during the
course.
Course program Houston ‘CFD for Offshore applications’ 2018
Time
8:30 THURSDAY October 11 FRIDAY October 12
9:00 Welcome and course introduction Welcome and Coffee
9:15
9:30 Theory of motions
9:45 Background Theory CFD
10.00
10:15 Coffee Break
10:30
10:45 Coffee Break
11:00 Uncertainty analysis
11:15 Forced Moving objects
11:30
11:45 Resistance, wind and current
12:00
12:15
12:30
12:45
Lunch Lunch
13:00
13:15
13:30 Resistance, wind and current continued
13:45 Free moving objects VIM
14:00 Thrusters
14:15
14:30
14:45 Theory of multi-phase flows Impacts
15:00
15:15
15:30
Coffee Break Coffee Break
15:45
16:00
16:15 Wave generation and propagation Objects in waves
16:30
16:45
17:00
17:15
Exercises Exercises
17:30
17:45
18:00
 CONDITIONS
Schedule
The Hydrodynamics of Floating Offshore Structures course will be held 9 to 11 October 2018
(3 days). The CFD for Offshore Applications course will be held 11 to 12 October 2018 (2
days). Both training will be given each day from 9:00 to 18:00. A details schedule will be
provided prior the course.

Participation fee
The participation fee includes all documentation, refreshments and lunches. The courses are
complementary to each other and a discounted price is available for participants who join both
courses. We further offer discounts to companies who register three or more employees as
shown in the table below.

Application closing date for both courses: October 1, 2018

No. Reduction Applied Hydrodynamics of CFD for Offshore Both courses
participants Floating Offshore Structures Applications
1 0% $ 2,400.00 $ 1,600.00 $ 3,000.00
2 0% $ 4,800.00 $ 3,200.00 $ 6,000.00
3 10% $ 6,480.00 $ 4,320.00 $ 9,000.00
4 10% $ 8,640.00 $ 5,760.00 $12,000.00
5 20% $ 9,600.00 $ 6,400.00 $15,000.00
6 20% $11,520.00 $7,680.00 $18,000.00

Payment
Fee to be paid upon receipt of invoice with a deadline of at least two weeks prior to the first day
of the course. Payment by cheque or international money order, made payable to: MARIN, The
Netherlands; Account number 53 93 39 156,
IBAN number NL77ABNA0539339156 ABN-AMRO Bank N.V., Amsterdam.

Number of participants
Venue Both courses are subject to a minimum number of 8 participants and a maximum of 12.
The course will be held in Houston, at 4203 Admittance to the courses will be on first come first served basis.
Montrose Blvd.
Cancellations
Accommodation In case of a cancellation by the participant, the following rules apply:
Hotel accommodation is not included in the Cancellation within 2 weeks of the start of the course: 100% of the course fee
course fee. Cancellation within 1 month of the start of the course: 30% of the course fee. In other cases the
cancellation is free of charge. In case that MARIN is forced to cancel a course due to a lack of
participation, we will inform the registered participants on the first working day after the
Application/registration deadline. In this case the entire fee will be refunded.

Application
To ensure your participation (number of participants is limited), please fill in the registration form
on www.marin.nl/courses or send an email to courses@marin.nl.

Documentation
The course notes contain the full set of information as presented during the course in English.
The course notes will be made available on paper. Strict copyrights apply to the course notes
and they shall not be made available or sold to other parties.
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