Ship motions induced by waves have a significant impact on the efficiency and safety of offshore operations.Real-time prediction of ship motions in the next few seconds plays a crucial role in performing sensitive act...Ship motions induced by waves have a significant impact on the efficiency and safety of offshore operations.Real-time prediction of ship motions in the next few seconds plays a crucial role in performing sensitive activities.However,the obvious memory effect of ship motion time series brings certain difficulty to rapid and accurate prediction.Therefore,a real-time framework based on the Long-Short Term Memory(LSTM)neural network model is proposed to predict ship motions in regular and irregular head waves.A 15000 TEU container ship model is employed to illustrate the proposed framework.The numerical implementation and the real-time ship motion prediction in irregular head waves corresponding to the different time scales are carried out based on the container ship model.The related experimental data were employed to verify the numerical simulation results.The results show that the proposed method is more robust than the classical extreme short-term prediction method based on potential flow theory in the prediction of nonlinear ship motions.展开更多
Since the amplitude and frequency of irregular waves change with time,great difficulties are brought for solving ship load responses in random waves.To take the effect of various frequencies of irregular waves into co...Since the amplitude and frequency of irregular waves change with time,great difficulties are brought for solving ship load responses in random waves.To take the effect of various frequencies of irregular waves into consideration in load responses of hull,the wave memory effect is necessary.A semi-analytical method is introduced for the time-domain retardation functions,and then a nonlinear hydroelastic method considering memory effect for ships in irregular waves is proposed.Segmented self-propelling model experiments of a container ship were carried out in a towing tank,a ship motion measuring device for self-propelling model test was designed.Whipping responses of the ship in regular and irregular waves are analyzed.Finally,the calculation results are compared with those measured by segmented model experiments,and the result indicates that the memory effect has little effect on load responses of ship in regular waves,but pronounced effect on results in irregular waves.Moreover,the presented method is reasonable for the prediction of ship load responses in irregular waves.展开更多
文摘Ship motions induced by waves have a significant impact on the efficiency and safety of offshore operations.Real-time prediction of ship motions in the next few seconds plays a crucial role in performing sensitive activities.However,the obvious memory effect of ship motion time series brings certain difficulty to rapid and accurate prediction.Therefore,a real-time framework based on the Long-Short Term Memory(LSTM)neural network model is proposed to predict ship motions in regular and irregular head waves.A 15000 TEU container ship model is employed to illustrate the proposed framework.The numerical implementation and the real-time ship motion prediction in irregular head waves corresponding to the different time scales are carried out based on the container ship model.The related experimental data were employed to verify the numerical simulation results.The results show that the proposed method is more robust than the classical extreme short-term prediction method based on potential flow theory in the prediction of nonlinear ship motions.
基金Project(51509062)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject(ZR2014EEP024)supported by the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation,ChinaProject(HIT.NSRIF.201727)supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,China
文摘Since the amplitude and frequency of irregular waves change with time,great difficulties are brought for solving ship load responses in random waves.To take the effect of various frequencies of irregular waves into consideration in load responses of hull,the wave memory effect is necessary.A semi-analytical method is introduced for the time-domain retardation functions,and then a nonlinear hydroelastic method considering memory effect for ships in irregular waves is proposed.Segmented self-propelling model experiments of a container ship were carried out in a towing tank,a ship motion measuring device for self-propelling model test was designed.Whipping responses of the ship in regular and irregular waves are analyzed.Finally,the calculation results are compared with those measured by segmented model experiments,and the result indicates that the memory effect has little effect on load responses of ship in regular waves,but pronounced effect on results in irregular waves.Moreover,the presented method is reasonable for the prediction of ship load responses in irregular waves.