Guidelines for Wind Tunnel Testing of Mobile Offshore Drilling Units |
Common terms and phrases
360 degree range above-water model above-water portion air-sea interface below-water centers below-water model below-water portion Below-Water Tests body-axis system boundary surface circular cylinders combinations of draft Cranes and Flare drag characteristics drag coefficients drag force Drillships Dye Traces Dynamic Positioning Flare Booms flexible boundary flow field flow separation flow visualization force balance forces and moments free stream full scale guidelines inclination angle jack-up leg jack-up unit leg sections Lift Force model scale model surface model testing MODU Type MODU wind tunnel MOTIONS TECHNOLOGY Nomenclature Pitch Moment relative wind headings Reynolds Number Effects rigid boundary approach scale effects Section 8.1 semisubmersible sensitive to Reynolds special treatment stability evaluation stationkeeping structural elements Supercritical Flow technique test configuration test program towing resistance evaluation trip wire tunnel boundary tunnel testing procedures turbulence intensity Wind forces wind load measurements wind tunnel facilities wind tunnel tests wind velocity profile wind-axis coordinate system wind-axis system