Geometrically Nonlinear Finite Element Formulation for Marine Risers

This thesis presents a large displacement, small strain formulation for the analysis
of flexible marine risers and addresses present computational shortcomings associated
with hydrostatic and hydrodynamic forces in the geometrically nonlinear setting. The
continuum mechanics incremental equation of motion, which essentially stems from
the Newton–Raphson method, serves as the basis for the nonlinear formulation.