On Vessel Motion Induced Vortex-Induced Vibrations of a Steel Lazy Wave Riser

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Decao Yin

Abstract Deepwater steel lazy wave risers (SLWR) subject to vessel motion will be exposed to time-varying oscillatory flow, vortices could be generated and the cyclic vortex shedding force causes the structure vibrate, such fluid-structure interaction is called vortex-induced vibrations (VIV). To investigate VIV on a riser with non-linear structures under vessel motion and oscillatory flows, time domain approaches are needed. In this study, a time-domain approach is used to simulate a full-scale SLWR. Two cases with simplified riser top motions are simulated numerically. By using default input parameters to the time domain approach, the key oscillatory flow induced VIV response characteristics such as response frequency, curvature and displacements are examined and discussed. More accurate VIV prediction could be achieved by using realistic hydrodynamic inputs into the time domain model.

Author(s):  
Sang Woo Kim ◽  
Svein Sævik ◽  
Jie Wu

Abstract This paper addresses the performance evaluation of an empirical time domain Vortex Induced Vibrations (VIV) model which has been developed for several years at NTNU. Unlike the frequency domain which is the existing VIV analysis method, the time domain model introduces new vortex shedding force terms to the well known Morison equation. The extra load terms are based on the relative velocity, a synchronization model and additional empirical coefficients that describe the hydrodynamic forces due to cross-flow (CF) and In-line (IL) vortex shedding. These hydrodynamic coefficients have been tuned to fit experimental data and by considering the results from the one of existing frequency domain VIV programs, VIVANA, which is widely used for industrial design. The feature of the time domain model is that it enables to include the structural non-linearity, such as variable tension, and time-varying flow. The robustness of the new model’s features has been validated by comparing the test results in previous researches. However, the riser used in experiments has a relatively small length/diameter (L/D) ratio. It implies that there is a need for more validation to make it applicable to real riser design. In this study, the time domain VIV model is applied to perform correlation studies against the Hanøytangen experiment data for the case of linear sheared current at a large L/D ratio. The main comparison has been made with respect to the maximum fatigue damage and dominating frequency for each test condition. The results show the time domain model showed reasonable accuracy with respect to the experimental and VIVANA. The discrepancy with regard to experiment results needs to be further studied with a non-linear structural model.


Author(s):  
Kai Guo ◽  
Yipeng Wang ◽  
Tong Su ◽  
Liyan Liu ◽  
Zhanbin Jia ◽  
...  

Abstract As the most dangerous flow-induced vibration (FIV) mechanism, fluid-elastic instability is always accompanied by the wake shedding. If both of the two FIV mechanisms are considered, fluid forces in this condition can be quite complex. In this paper, a time-domain model based on unsteady flow theory was used to investigate the fluid-elastic instability in a rotated triangular tube array. The vortex shedding forces were simplified as harmonic forces. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) was used to get the fluid force coefficients with vortex shedding. The model was established by a finite element code with MATLAB software and simulation results agreed with the experiment results. The results showed the critical instability velocity can be influenced by vortex shedding forces, and double peaks can be found in the frequency spectrum of displacements of tubes. The time-domain displacements showed the phases had been impacted by the shedding and periodic characteristic was found in the displacements results. The model can also be adopted in fluid-elastic instability analysis in other tube arrangements and flow conditions.


Author(s):  
Mats J. Thorsen ◽  
Svein Sævik

The theoretical background of an empirical model for time domain simulation of VIV is reviewed. This model allows the surrounding flow to be time varying, which is in contrast to the traditional frequency domain tools. The hydrodynamic load model consists of Morison’s equation plus an additional term representing the oscillating effect of vortex shedding. The magnitude of the vortex shedding force is given by a dimensionless coefficient, and this force is assumed to act perpendicular to the relative velocity between the cylinder and the fluid. The time variability of the vortex shedding force is described by a synchronization model, which captures how the instantaneous frequency reacts to cylinder motion. The parameters in the time domain load model are calibrated against a commonly used frequency domain VIV analysis tool, VIVANA. To do this, a finite element model of a vertical tensioned riser is established, and the structure is exposed to a linearly sheared flow. Key results such as cross-flow displacements along the riser, frequency content, r.m.s. of bending stresses and mean in-line displacements are compared, and it is shown that the frequency and time domain methods are close to equivalent in this simple case with stationary flow. Finally, the time domain model is utilized to study VIV of a riser subjected to regular waves. The characteristics of wave induced VIV are discussed in light of the simulation results. It is seen that VIV is excited in the zone close to the surface, and the energy is transported downwards as traveling waves. The vibrations typically build up as the horizontal water particle velocity is high, and die out as the velocity decreases. The effect of varying the wave amplitude and period is investigated, and it is found that the dominating frequency, mode and r.m.s. stresses increase together with the wave height. The effect of the wave period is however more complicated. For example, reducing the wave period increases the dominating mode but decreases the displacements. Hence the stress may increase or decrease, depending on which of these effects are strongest.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tingting Dong ◽  
Qiuping Huang ◽  
Shucai Huang ◽  
Jiang Xin ◽  
Qiaolan Jia ◽  
...  

Methamphetamine (MA) can cause brain structural and functional impairment, but there are few studies on whether this difference will sustain on MA abstainers. The purpose of this study is to investigate the correlation of brain networks in MA abstainers. In this study, 47 people detoxified for at least 14 months and 44 normal people took a resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (RS-fMRI) scan. A dynamic (i.e., time-varying) functional connectivity (FC) is obtained by applying sliding windows in the time courses on the independent components (ICs). The windowed correlation data for each IC were then clustered by k-means. The number of subjects in each cluster was used as a new feature for individual identification. The results show that the classifier achieved satisfactory performance (82.3% accuracy, 77.7% specificity, and 85.7% sensitivity). We find that there are significant differences in the brain networks of MA abstainers and normal people in the time domain, but the spatial differences are not obvious. Most of the altered functional connections (time-varying) are identified to be located at dorsal default mode network. These results have shown that changes in the correlation of the time domain may play an important role in identifying MA abstainers. Therefore, our findings provide valuable insights in the identification of MA and elucidate the pathological mechanism of MA from a resting-state functional integration point of view.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chungkuk Jin ◽  
Sung-Jae Kim ◽  
MooHyun Kim

Abstract We develop a fully-coupled time-domain hydro-elasticity model for the Submerged Floating Tunnel (SFT) based on the Discrete-Module-Beam (DMB) method. Frequency-domain simulation based on 3D potential theory results in multibody’s hydrodynamic coefficients and excitation forces for tunnel sections. Subsequently, we build the time-domain model with the multibody Cummins equation and external stiffness matrix from the Euler-Bernoulli and Saint-Venant torsion theories. We establish the mooring line model with rod theory and couple components with translational springs at their respective connection locations. We then compare the dynamic motions, wave forces, and mooring tensions between the present and Morison-equation-based elastic models under regular wave excitations at different submergence depths. The present model is especially important for the shallowly submerged tunnel in which the Morison model shows exaggerated motions, especially at high-frequency range.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Liu ◽  
Weiqiang Zhao ◽  
Weiwei Liu

Considering the microstructure of tooth surface and the dynamic characteristics of the vibration responses, a compound dynamic backlash model is employed for the gear transmission system. Based on the fractal theory and dynamic center distance, respectively, the dynamic backlash is presented, and the potential energy method is applied to compute the time-varying meshing stiffness, including the healthy gear system and the crack fault gear system. Then, a 16-DOF coupled lateral-torsional gear-rotor-bearing transmission system with the crack fault is established. The fault characteristics in the time-domain waveform and frequency response and statistics data are described. The effect of crack on the time-varying meshing stiffness is analyzed. The vibration response of three backlash models is compared. The dynamic response of the system is explored with the increase in crack depth in detail. The results show that the fault features of countershaft are more obvious. Obvious fluctuations are presented in the time-domain waveform, and sidebands can be found in the frequency domain responses when the tooth root crack appears. The effect of compound dynamic backlash on the system is more obvious than fixed backlash and backlash with changing center distance. The vibration displacement along meshing direction and dynamic meshing force increases with the increase in crack depth. Backlash and variation of center distance show different tendencies with increasing crack depth under different rotational speeds. Amplitude of the sidebands increases with crack depth increasing. The amplitude of multiplication frequency of rotational frequency has an obvious variation with growing crack depth. The sidebands of the multiplication frequency of meshing frequency show more details on the system with complex backlash and crack fault.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Rong He ◽  
Hong Zhou

The time-domain substructure inverse matrix method has become a popular method to detect and diagnose problems regarding vehicle noise, vibration, and harshness, especially for those impulse excitations caused by roads. However, owning to its reliance on frequency response functions (FRFs), the approach is effective only for time-invariable linear or weak nonlinear systems. This limitation prevents this method from being applied to a typical vehicle suspension substructure, which shows different nonlinear characteristics under different wheel transient loads. In this study, operational excitation was considered as a key factor and applied to calculate dynamic time-varying FRFs to perform accurate time-domain transient vibration transfer path analysis (TPA). The core idea of this novel method is to divide whole coupled substructural relationships into two parts: one involved time-invariable components; normal FRFs could be obtained through tests directly. The other involved numerical computations of the time-domain operational loads matrix and FRFs matrix in static conditions. This method focused on determining dynamic FRFs affected by operational loads, especially the severe transient ones; these loads are difficult to be considered in other classical TPA approaches, such as operational path analysis with exogenous inputs (OPAX) and operational transfer path analysis (OTPA). Experimental results showed that this new approach could overcome the limitations of the traditional time-domain substructure TPA in terms of its strict requirements within time-invariable systems. This is because in the new method, time-varying FRFs were calculated and used, which could make the FRFs at the system level directly adapt to time-varying systems from time to time. In summary, the modified method extends TPA objects studied in time-invariable systems to time-varying systems and, thus, makes a methodology and application innovation compared to traditional the time-domain substructure TPA.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Majid A Bhinder ◽  
Jimmy Murphy

Viscous drag, nonlinear in nature, is an important aspect of the fluid–structure interaction modelling and is usually not taken into account when the fluid is assumed to be inviscid. Potential flow solvers can competently compute radiation damping, which is related to the radiated wave field. However, the drag damping primarily related to the viscous effects is usually neglected in the radiation/diffraction problems solved by the boundary element method (BEM), also known as the boundary integral element method (BIEM). This drag force can have a significant impact in the case of structures extending much deeper below the free surface, or for those that are completely submerged. In this paper, the drag coefficient C d was quantified for the heave and surge response of a structure which consists of a moored horizontally oriented domed cylinder with two surface piercing square columns located at the top surface. The domed cylinder is the primary part and is submerged. The drag coefficient is estimated using the experimental measurements related to harmonic monochromatic wave–structure interaction. Finally, this estimated drag coefficient was used in the modified time domain model, which includes the nonlinear viscous correction term, and the resulting device response in heave and surge directions is presented for an irregular incoming wave field. The comparison of the numerical model and the experiments validates the estimated C d values obtained earlier. Prior to the time domain model, frequency-dependent parameters such as added mass, radiation damping, and excitation force were computed using three mainstream potential flow packages (that is, ANSYS AQWA, WAMIT, and NEMOH), and a comparison is presented. The effect of free surface on the drag coefficient is investigated through differences in C d values between heave and surge modes.


2012 ◽  
Vol 238 ◽  
pp. 826-829
Author(s):  
Zhen Chen ◽  
Jun Ling Han

The conjugate gradient method (CGM) is compared with the time domain method (TDM) in the paper. The numerical simulation results show that the CGM have higher identification accuracy and robust noise immunity as well as producing an acceptable solution to ill-posed problems to some extent when they are used to identify the moving force. When the bending moment responses are used to identify the time-varying loads, the identification accuracy is more obviously improved than the TDM, which is more suitable for the time-varying loads identification.


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