Hydroelasticity

Definition

Importance

• High-speed craft.
• Ships with the phenomena springing and whipping affecting fatigue and extreme loading
• Large scale floating structures such as floating airports , floating bridges and buoyant tunnels.
• Marine Risers.
• Cable systems and umbilicals for remotely operated or tethered underwater vehicles.
• Seismic cable systems.
• Flexible containers for water transport, oil spill recovery and other purposes.

  Areas of research

• Analytical and numerical methods in FSI.
• Techniques for laboratory and in-service investigations.
• Stochastic methods.
• Hydroelasticity-based prediction of Wave Loads and Responses.
• Impact, sloshing and shock.
• Flow induced vibration.
• Tsunami and seaquake induced responses of large marine structures.
• Devices for energy extraction.

  Current research

Institutes and laboratories

• Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
• University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
• MARINTEK : Marine Technology Centre, Trondheim, Norway
• MARIN : Maritime Research Institute Netherlands.
• MIT
• University of Michigan.,
• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India.
• Saint Petersburg State University, Russia.
• National Maritime Research Institute, Japan.
• Research Institute of Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Japan.
• Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan.
• Lee Dynamics, Houston, Texas, USA

  Conferences

• HYDROELAS : International conference on Hydroelasticity in marine technology.
• FSI : International conference on fluid-structure interaction.
• OT : Offshore Technology Conference.
• ISOPE : International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers conference.

  Journals

• Journal of Sound and Vibration.
• Journal of Ship Research.
• Applied Ocean research.
• Journal of Engineering Mechanics.
• IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering.
• Journal of Fluids and Structures