Level ice is one of the main ice types encountered in the operation of offshore structures while vertical structures are a typical configuration of offshore structures, so it is of great significance to carry out the study of the ice loading on vertical structures under the action of level ice. Firstly, the interaction process between level ice and vertical structures was analyzed generally. Then, the model test of ice loading on vertical cylindrical structures was performed, and the failure model of level ice and the characteristics of the ice loading were investigated. Finally, based on the cohesive element model and the degraded constitutive model of sea ice, a numerical model was developed to simulate the crack propagation and crushing process of level ice, and test data were used to verify the correctness of the numerical simulation model. The work can lay an important foundation for the numerical and experimental research of ice loading and provide technical reference for the design and construction of offshore structures.

With the long-term service of a semi-submersible platform at sea, the basic design parameters of the platform will change. If the platform is still analyzed based on the original design parameters, the accuracy of the results will be affected. In this paper, the basic parameters (displacement, center of gravity height and three-degree-of-freedom radius of rotation) that are easy to change during the service of a semi-submersible platform were taken as the updating parameters, the objective function was constructed by the variances, and wave frequency power spectral density of platform roll, pitch and heave, and a Bayesian parameter updating method of semi-submersible platform based on the monitoring data was established. With the monitoring data of a semi-submersible platform in China taken as an example, the parameter updating of the platform was carried out, and based on the updated parameters, the response of the platform under a multi-year return period environmental load was compared and evaluated.

Based on the concept of ‘casing treatment’ technology in aero-engine, a certain number of axial groove structures were set up in the inner wall of a pumpjet propulsor duct to weaken the tip vortex intensity, so as to reduce the pulsating pressure on the inner wall of the duct. By applying DES method and sliding mesh method, the flow around tip vortex field region of an elliptical hydrofoil was numerically simulated. The numerical calculation results are in good agreement with the experimental values, which verifies the reliability and applicability of the numerical calculation method.On this basis, the numerical simulations of the pumpjet propulsor with and without groove structures were carried out, and the effects of groove structure on the tip vortex core pressure, the pulsating pressure on the inner wall of the duct and hydrodynamic performance were compared and analyzed.The results show that the groove structures can significantly increase the tip vortex core pressure, reduce the amplitude of fluctuating pressure on the inner wall of the duct, and has little effect on the hydrodynamic performance.

Through long-term evolution and natural selection, fish have excellent swimming ability in water. With the help of the caudal fins, fish can perform fast and efficient straight-line swimming and fast start/maneuver. With the help of the pectoral fins, fish can move forward, backward and turn flexibly. Based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method, a mesh division strategy was proposed to solve the rigid motion of the caudal/pectoral fins and the flexible motion of the fish bodies. The hydrodynamic performance of the caudal/pectoral fins and the fish in uniform flow and the fish’s self-propelled swimming in still water were numerically simulated. The results show that the dynamic mesh method can simulate the rigid or flexible movement of fins and fish bodies effectively by using the hybrid mesh strategy of structure and non-structure based on CFD method. The effectiveness of the method in solving the hydrodynamic performance was verified by comparing with the experimental results. The numerical calculation method and validation examples have theoretical reference significance for the study of bio-hydrodynamics.

As a typical representative of the propulsion mode of BCF (body-caudal fin), tuna swims fast, which has become one of the important biomimetic research objects.In this paper, based on spring-based smoothing model and local remeshing model, a numerical calculation method for solving RANS equations and analyzing vortex structure extraction established for the flow field of caudal fin were verified by grid independence verification, and the results were compared well with those published in the literature. The investigation on the variation of the hydrodynamic force and vortex structure with the St number shows that the vortex ring structure in the wake presents a staggered distribution in a“zigzag”shape, and that, with the increase of St number, the vortex ring structure in the wake gradually evolves from a single column to a double column, and that the thrust coefficient increases.

PTO (power take-off) system is an important part of wave energy converters (WECs). In this paper, a mechanical PTO system was proposed for a WEC with a float arm. Co-simulation study of the hydrodynamic performance of float-arm buoy and PTO system under the influence of generator load and mechanical transmission was carried out.The motion responses of the buoy under different stroke modes were analyzed, the parameters of the PTO system of the co-simulation model were also optimized.The results show that the power of the WEC with double strokes is significantly higher than that of the WEC with a single stroke, and that the transmission ratio corresponding to the optimal power of the WEC with double strokes is about 72.5. For the buoy working with a single stroke, the ascending stroke power is nearly equal to the descending stroke power under a low transmission ratio (less than 60). With the increase of transmission ratio, both the power of the ascending stroke and the power of descending stroke increase compared with that of dual-stroke mode, while the descending stroke power is larger than the ascending stroke power. The co-simulation method may provide a reference for the design and optimization of various point absorber WECs under different sea conditions.

Deep draft cylindrical floating nuclear platforms are a new type of multi-functional and efficient platforms, which can effectively solve the problem of energy supply in the development of offshore islands and reefs in the South China Sea. At a certain inflow velocity, the wake area will induce vortex-induced motions (VIMs) of a platform, which will seriously accelerate the fatigue damage of the mooring and riser system, and adversely affect the operation of nuclear reactors inside the platform. Based on the improved delayed detached eddy simulation (IDDES), the sway, surge and yaw motion responses of a platform at different reduced speeds were numerically simulated, and the key characteristics of vortex-induced motions were analyzed from the perspectives of motion trajectory, motion frequency and three-dimensional flow field. The results show that when the reduction speed of U_r ranges between 5.45 and 9.08, the amplitude of sway and yaw increases gradually, the motion trajectory is similar to a“banana”, the frequency of sway and yaw is basically the same, and there is no obvious change of“locking”interval in sway. However, when 7.26 < U_r < 9.08, the amplitude of yaw increases approximately linearly with several peaks appearing near the dominant frequency, and the motion trajectory gradually widens in the downstream direction. In the three-dimensional flow field, it is found that the three-dimensional vortex structures is quite complex, and that the skirt structure at the bottom of the platform interferes with the surface flow separation, which results in a certain vortex reduction.

As a new type of structure, there is no mature design and strength analysis method for large-span reticulated shell structures of offshore tourism platforms. In this paper, the relative vertical displacement of the reticulated shell structure column was taken as the wave load control condition, and the wave load was calculated based on the design wave method and the three-dimensional hydroelastic theory.With the once-in-a-century wind speed taken as the wind load working condition, the turbulence model of k-ε was adopted to simulate the wind field for calculation of the wind load, the panel integration method was used to calculate the equivalent node load of the reticulated shell structure, and the calculation method of the external load for large-span shell structures was thus established. On this basis, taking the“Heart of the Sea”tourism platform as an example, the response analysis of the reticulated shell structure was carried out, and the responses of the reticulated shell structure under the action of wind load, wave load and combined loads of both were obtained. The effects of wind load and wave load on the response of the reticulated shell structure were compared and analyzed.

In this paper, a new frequency-domain analysis method based on the modified Tovo-Benasciutti (T-B) method was proposed to calculate the fatigue damage under wide-band Gaussian random processes. According to the parametric power spectrum with different spectral shapes, a new nonlinear function model for the key parameter b_TB of T-B method was developed through the time-domain fatigue damage analysis. Compared with the original T-B method, the modified T-B method was proposed by introducing the slope parameter m of S-N curves into the new function model of parameter b_MTB. Through the numerical tests with parametric power spectrum and real power spectrum, the results of time-domain rain-flow counting (RFC) method was used as reference, and the accuracy and robustness of the modified T-B method were verified against several existing frequency-domain methods.

Aiming at the fatigue crack growth behavior of marine HTS-A steel at low temperature, the CT sample of HTS-A steel with a thickness of 25 mm was adopted in this paper, and the fatigue crack growth tests at room temperature and different low temperature environments were carried out. On the basis of experimental research, a low-temperature fatigue crack growth prediction method with improved McEvily formula including temperature term was proposed. The results show that the fatigue crack growth rate of HTS-A steel decreases gradually with the temperature decrease. At -60 ℃, the low temperature fatigue crack growth rate of HTS-A steel does not show low temperature brittle fracture, and the test results provide data reference for the low temperature fatigue design of marine HTS-A steel. At the same time, the low temperature test data of HTS-A steel in this paper and the low temperature test data of titanium alloy in the literature were used to verify the rationality and correctness of the low temperature fatigue crack growth rate prediction method. The method can be used to predict the metal fatigue crack growth rate in different low temperature environments.