| Summary: | The wave induced yaw drift moment on floating structures is of particular interest when the lateral yaw motion of the structure should be controlled by moorings and/or active dynamic positioning systems. In the present paper, the estimation of the yaw drift moment in the modeled natural wave environment is conducted by application of a nonlinear time domain numerical method accounting for the motion of arbitrarily shaped floating bodies in waves. The computational method is based on linear potential theory and includes the non-linear hydrostatic terms in an exact way, whereas the higher-order wave-induced effects are partly approximated. Despite the approximate modeling of the second order hydrodynamic forces, the method proved to satisfactorily approach the dominant part of the exerted hydrodynamic forces enabling the calculation of drift forces and of other drift effects in irregular waves. Hence, the subject yaw drift moment in the modeled natural wave environment is derived, resulting to a basic reference for the design of similar type floating structures. Copyright © 2005 by ASME.
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