《Laboratory Research on Effective Test Area of ShortCrested Waves Generated by TwoSided Segmented Wavemakers》.pdfVIP

China Ocean Eng., Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 181 – 192 © 2014 Chinese Ocean Engineering Society DOI 10.1007/s13344-014-0014-7, ISSN 0890-5487 Laboratory Research on Effective Test Area of Short-Crested Waves * Generated by Two-Sided Segmented Wavemakers LI Jun (李 俊)a, 1, CHEN Gang (陈 刚)a, b, YANG Jian-min (杨建民)a and PENG Tao (彭 涛)a a State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China b Marine Design and Research Institute of China, Shanghai 200011, China (Received 26 December 2012; received revised form 26 March 2013; accepted 28 June 2013) ABSTRACT The size and shape of the effective test area are crucial to consider when short-crested waves are created by segmented wavemakers. The range of the effective test area of short-crested waves simulated by two-sided segmented wavemakers is analyzed in this paper. The experimental investigation on the wave field distribution of short-crested waves generated by two-sided segmented wavemakers is conducted by using an array of wave gauges. Wave spectra and directional spreading function are analyzed and the results show that when the main direction is at a certain angle with the normal line of wave generators, the wave field of 3D short-crested waves generated by two-sided segmented wavemakers has good spatial uniformity within the model test area. The effective test area can provide good wave environments for seakeeping model tests of various ocean engineering structures in the deep ocean engineering basin. Key words: wave simulatio