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Title: Statistical characteristics of the global wave statistics data and long-term predictions

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OSTI ID:455449
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  1. Kyushu Univ., Higashi, Fukuoka (Japan)

This paper discusses the influence on long-term predictions of the ship responses in ocean by using the Global Wave Statistics data. GWS, with special emphasis given to its scatter diagram rounded by one thousandth (1/1000), and it proposes a practical method for correcting round figure error of GWS. In order to compare predictions based on GWS with other wave data, GWS`s standard scatter diagrams of significant wave height and zero-crossing wave period are suggested to be corrected to a round number of 0.01/1000 fitted with a statistical analytic model of the conditional lognormal distribution for zero-crossing wave period. The statistical characteristics for both Corrected and Uncorrected GWS data are calculated and examined in point of quality level. And then, a series of numerical long-term predictions of ship responses such as vertical accelerations, etc. are also executed by using both corrected and uncorrected one, and both long-term predicting values are compared and investigated for standardizing the format of wave data. Based on the present comparison, it is shown that the influence (maybe underestimate) on long-term predictions of the ship response by using original GWS data, rounded by 1/1000, could not be neglected.

OSTI ID:
455449
Report Number(s):
CONF-9606279-; ISBN 0-7918-1491-2; TRN: IM9716%%298
Resource Relation:
Conference: 14. international conference on offshore mechanics arctic engineering (OMAE), Florence (Italy), 16-20 Jun 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the 15. international conference on offshore mechanics and arctic engineering -- OMAE 1996. Volume 2: Safety and reliability; Guedes Soares, C. [ed.] [Technical Univ. of Lisbon (Portugal)]; Bea, R.G. [ed.] [Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)]; Leira, B.J. [ed.] [SINTEF, Trondheim (Norway)]; Shetty, N.K. [ed.] [W.S. Atkins, Surrey (United Kingdom)]; Vinnem, J.E. [ed.] [Elf Petroleum Norge AS, Oslo (Norway)]; PB: 525 p.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English