SCALING RATIO EFFECTS ON THE PREDICTION OF TRUSS SPAR DYNAMIC MOTIONS

Offshore oil and gas production represents an important part of many countries' energy infrastructure. Thereby, oil and gas industry tests enormous technological novelties especially for the massive floating platforms in the deep water. First of all in the sphere of advanced hydrodynamic models which could be a physical model built to scale. Currently, physical model testing of deepwater floaters, mooring lines and risers are restricted due to the limitation of the water depth of the available wave basin in the offshore testing facilities worldwide. There were numerous studies performed on the methods to overcome the wave basin limitation. There is, however, a lacking in the studies regarding the scale effects on the responses of the physical model.