Journal
OCEAN ENGINEERING
Volume 36, Issue 6-7, Pages 489-499Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2009.01.018
Keywords
Clay-rich; Submarine debris flow; Impact; Pipeline; Drag force; Longitudinal; Normal; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
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Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis was employed to numerically simulate impact of clay-rich submarine debris flows on a suspended (free-span) pipeline at various angles of attack. The resultant horizontal drag force can be decomposed into two components: normal and parallel to the pipe axis. A method is presented for estimating the normal and longitudinal drag forces on a suspended pipeline and is applicable to a wide ofimpact situations. The work presented here complements the results of an earlier investigation into the drag forces on suspended and laid-on-sea floor pipelines. The previous investigation consisted of both physical laboratory experiments and CFD numerical analyses, for an impact situation normal to the pipe axis. The impact Reynolds numbers presented in this paper range between about 2 and 320. This range is considered appropriate for practical design purposes. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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