Marine Hydrodynamics -- a memoir

70 years anniversary seminar and celebration

for
Professor Odd M. Faltinsen and Professor Torgeir Moan
NTNU, Trondheim
19-20 May 2014

by J. N. Newman
NTNU, MIT, WAMIT Inc
 Outline

• Early days of my own career (1955-1960)

• Interactions with Torgeir and Odd (1969 … )

• Computations of 3D wave effects (1980’s … )

• Closing thoughts
EST TAXES

(From CESOS Annual Report 2010 )

EST TAXES

(From CESOS Annual Report 2010 )

 1955-1960
Mentors and Heroes

Martin Abkowitz, MIT

Fritz Ursell, Cambridge
Georg Weinblum, Hamburg
M. D. Haskind, Odessa
T. H. Havelock, Newcastle
John Wehausen, Berkeley
Reinier Timman, Delft
 Odd’s first visit to MIT – 1971
(en-route home from Ann Arbor)
“The Alexander L. Kielland Accident”,
by Torgeir Moan
First Wallace Lecture, MIT, June 1981

Photo: Norwegian Petroleum Museum

Stavanger, June 1982
Sailing in Woods Hole – September 1980
(Visiting Professor, MIT 1980-81)
Welcome to Trondheim -- August 1981
Welcome to Trondheim -- August 1981
 Development of 3D panel codes

Original work by Hess & Smith, JSR 1964

(no waves)
 Evolution of radiation/diffraction codes

• Submerged bodies: Halkyard/Milgram (1971)

• Floating bodies: Garrison, Hogben/Standing,
v.Oertmerssen, Faltinsen/Michelsen

• Alternative methods (FEM): Bai,

EatockTaylor/Wu, Yue/Chen/Mei/Aranha

• Special challenge in 1980’s: TLPs

 ISSC TLP comparisons from
`Variability of hydrodynamic load predictions for a
tension leg platform’,
Eatock Taylor and Jefferies (1986)
ISSC TLP represented by 4048 panels
(OMAE, 1988)
 `My’ Computers

5
10
CPU, MHz
104 RAM, Mbytes
PC
(8 core)
3
10
PC
(1 core)
MAINFRAMES Cray
2
10

1
10
PC/AT

0 Personal Computers
10 (PC)
IBM PC

10-1 IBM 7090

IBM 704
-2
10
1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Year
 `My’ Computers

5
10
CPU, MHz
104 RAM, Mbytes
PC
(8 core)
3
10
PC
(1 core)
MAINFRAMES Cray
2
10

1
10
PC/AT

0 Personal Computers
10 (PC)
IBM PC

10-1 IBM 7090

IBM 704
-2
10
1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Year
`Cloaking’ a circular cylinder in deep water
Surrounding structures optimized to minimize scattered energy at
Kd=1 (wavelength = 2𝜋 × draft)

Array of 64 circular cylinders Ring with varying radius and depth

E/E0 = 2 x 10-8 E/E0 = 5 x 10-9

y
y

x x
 Semi-sub 60 x 60 x 20 m
Rings optimized to minimize the drift force
at 8 periods 6(0.5)9.5 sec
 Comparison of drift forces
black: no rings
red: with rings

14

12
semi
semi + rings
10

8
DFx

6 8 10 12
Period (sec)
 More challenging problems

• Forward velocity (ships in waves)

• Nonlinear (steep / breaking waves)
• Viscous effects including separation
 Extensive software is now available
`off the shelf’

Great assets for offshore engineers and

naval architects,
but also a challenge to use intelligently

Good teaching and good students are vital!

Takk!