Wave response of closed flexible bags
Lader, Pål; Fredriksson, David W.; Volent, Zsolt; DeCew, Jud; Rosten, Trond Waldemar; Strand, Ida Marlen
Journal article, Peer reviewed
Accepted version
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http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2457574Utgivelsesdato
2017-05Metadata
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Originalversjon
10.1115/1.4036676Sammendrag
Recent environmental considerations, as salmon lice, escape of farmed fish and release of nutrients, have prompted the aquaculture industry to consider the use of closed fish production systems. The use of such systems is considered as one potential way of expanding the salmon production in Norway.
To better understand the response in waves of such bags, experiments were conducted with a series of 1:30 scaled models of closed flexible bags. The bags and floater were moored in a wave tank and subjected to series of regular waves (wave period between 0.5 and 1.5s and wave steepness 1/15, 1/30 and 1/60). Three different geometries were investigated; cylindrical, spherical and elliptical, and the models was both tested deflated (70% filling level) and inflated (100% filling level). Incident waves were measured together with the horizontal and vertical motion of the floater in two points (front and aft). Visual observations of the response were also done using cameras.
The main finding from the experiments were that a deflated bag was more wave compliant than an inflated bag, and that the integrity (whether water entered or left the bag over the floater) was challenged for the inflated bags even for smaller waves (identified as wave condition B (1.0m