ANALYTICAL SOLUTION OF HEAVE VIBRATION OF TENSION LEG PLATFORM

An analytical solution for the two-dimensional tension leg platform (TLP) interacting with ocean wave is presented. The legs of TLP are considered as elastic springs. The flow is assumed to be irrotational and single-valued velocity potentials are defined. The effects of radiation and scattering are considered in the boundary value problem. Because of linear behavior of legs during wave excitation, ignoring coupling effects with other degrees of freedom, the analytical solution of heave response has good agreement with the real behavior of the structure.