Challenge of Hydrodynamic Analysis for a Structure in Waves

Hydrodynamic analysis is one of the key steps in safety assessment ot a structure m waves, lvlany optloll~ axe available for answering challenge raised from marine and offshore energy industry, from costly three dimensional CFD to the efficient but not perfect boundary element models. Focus on the boundary element methods, analysis methods for the interaction of waves and structures are discussed. Those boundary element models cover frequency domain and time domain, linear and non-linear. Special attention is pay to the problems encountered in those models and approaches we adopted for their engineering solution.