Coupled Hydrodynamics and Innovative Mooring Systems for Offshore Floating Structures
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Ocean Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2027 | Viewed by 1860
Editors
Interests: hydrodynamics; offshore renewable energy; slamming; mooring analysis; ship vibration; fluid and structure interaction; hydroelasticity
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Interests: offshore renewable energy; mooring analysis; hydrodynamics; structural reliability
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The increasing demand for offshore renewable energy and sustainable ocean use has accelerated the development of multi-purpose offshore floating platforms, integrating wind, wave, floating photovoltaic, and aquaculture systems. The performance and cost-effectiveness of these platforms strongly depend on a reliable understanding of hydrodynamic behaviour and the design of efficient and innovative mooring and anchoring systems.
Floating structures are exposed to complex environmental loading from waves, currents, and wind, leading to nonlinear motions and coupled fluid–structure–mooring interactions. Recent advances in shared mooring lines and shared anchors, as well as hybrid and synthetic mooring systems, offer promising solutions to reduce material usage, seabed footprint, and overall costs, particularly for multi-body and large-scale offshore systems. However, these concepts also introduce increased coupling effects, dynamic complexity, and new challenges in fatigue and extreme response assessment. In parallel, progress in numerical modelling, CFD, experimental methods, and data-driven approaches, including machine learning, artificial intelligence, and digital twins, is enabling more efficient analysis, optimisation, and design of hydrodynamic and mooring systems under realistic environmental conditions.
This Special Issue of the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering invites high-quality original research and review papers addressing recent advances in hydrodynamics and innovative mooring and anchoring systems of offshore floating structures.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Hydrodynamics of offshore floating systems;
- Multi-purpose platforms;
- Shared mooring and shared-anchor systems;
- Innovative, hybrid, and synthetic mooring concepts;
- Fatigue and reliability analysis;
- Offshore renewable energy;
- Integrated renewable energy systems;
- Numerical modelling;
- Computational fluid dynamics;
- Experimental investigation;
- Machine learning technique;
- AI-assisted design methods.
Dr. Shan Wang
Prof. Dr. Sheng Xu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hydrodynamics
- mooring and anchoring systems
- shared moorings
- shared anchors
- multi-purpose offshore platforms
- offshore renewable energy
- CFD
- machine learning
- artificial intelligence
- fatigue and extreme response
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