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Introduction
DSWP
is a technique where the future detailed shape of the sea surface is predicted
typically up to 30 seconds ahead at a site of interest. The ability to predict
the sea surface shape and its consequences for predicting vessel motion has both
commercial and research consequences. DSWP will considerably extend the envelope
of operations in the Offshore Oil and Gas industry, in a variety of Naval roles,
wave energy absorbers and potentially in Fast Ferry services. DSWP and the
associated instrumentation also provides research tools for developing many
marine engineering areas such as:
heavy construction, salvage etc. as
well as for basic sea-wave
investigations.
DSWP
is highly multi-disciplinary, involving wave theory, large scale simulation,
adaptive digital signal processing, intelligent remote sensing instrumentation,
ship modelling and a wide range of
other marine engineering topics. The
fundamental research work has been pioneered by The Exeter Marine Dynamics Group
who have established the prediction requirements and made substantial progress
with the instrumentation issues.
To
take this new discipline to the point where technology demonstrators are
possible requires the well co-ordinated, focused efforts of a large range of
research engineers, ship modellers, oceanographers, commercial engineering
partners and end users. The
DSWP
Network contains the desired
membership necessary to achieve this aim
and it will build upon the
ability of many of the proposed
membership to collaborate on
specific aspects of DSWP.
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