The Effect of Wind–Wave Correlations on the Optimal Thruster Location for Offshore Vessels

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Publicado en:Journal of Marine Science and Engineering vol. 13, no. 11 (2025), p. 2025-2047
Autor principal: Mauro, Francesco
Otros Autores: D’Amore Giada Kyaw’oo
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520 3 |a Offshore vessels are nowadays equipped with dynamic positioning systems, meaning they have additional thrusters dedicated to the station keeping of the unit. However, there is no rational criterion on the placement of these devices to increment station keeping capabilities. This is true both in case of a vessel retrofitting or for the design of a new unit. The present work proposes investigating a methodology for the optimal placement of thrusters along the hull of an offshore unit. This implies the adoption of a suitable optimisation algorithm capable of handling all the constraints of the optimisation problem. As the target is the optimal capability, the optimisation should handle multiple dynamic positioning capability calculations, meaning (in a quasi-static approach) that it is capable of solving multiple thrust allocation problems at each optimisation step. As thruster allocation is another optimisation problem, the process should handle two nested optimisations. Here, the global location problem is solved with a differential evolution algorithm, while the thrust allocation employs non-linear programming. As the capability calculations imply the adoption of a specific wind–wave correlation, the present work compares the effect of different correlations on the optimised location of the thrusters. The results presented on a reference Pipe Lay Crane Vessel highlight the differences in the final optimum as a function of the environmental modelling. 
653 |a Environment models 
653 |a Station keeping 
653 |a Offshore 
653 |a Placement 
653 |a Evolutionary computation 
653 |a Stationkeeping 
653 |a Positioning systems 
653 |a Dynamic positioning 
653 |a Environmental modeling 
653 |a Algorithms 
653 |a Correlation 
653 |a Optimization 
653 |a Thrusters 
653 |a Design 
653 |a Linear programming 
653 |a Retrofitting 
653 |a Vessels 
653 |a Nonlinear programming 
653 |a Evolutionary algorithms 
653 |a Environmental 
700 1 |a D’Amore Giada Kyaw’oo 
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