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VIV Application to Deepwater Risers


Steve Leverette Atlantia Offshore Limited December 2-3, 2003

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Agenda
Introduction Environment Riser Response to Currents Fatigue Tendons The FIX Analysis Methods and Programs Model Tests and Data Sets Other Issues Areas of R&D Industry Experience Conclusion

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Thanks to:
Thanos Moros, BP Owen Oakley, Jim Stear, Hugh Thompson, Chevron Kim Vandiver, MIT Guy Mansour, Atlantia T. Sarpkaya, Naval Postgraduate School Don Allen/Li Lee, Shell Global Solutions Rodney Masters, AIMS

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Introduction
Risers and tendons Steel Catenary Riser: SCR Top Tensioned Riser: TTR Flexible Riser Free Standing Riser: FSR Highly Compliant Riser: HCR Tendons

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Perspective from the industry:


The offshore industry has been made painfully aware of what may go wrong, how VIV may affect operations. The industry is having to be conservative because of uncertainties in environment and in engineering prediction tools. For water depths to 5000, we can proceed with reasonable solutions. For 10,000, we cannot afford high levels of conservatism and still afford to make money producing oil.

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VIV is a resonant feedback phenomena


Engineering in uncertainty: Risks not generally in getting design numbers wrong, but in not designing for new phenomena.

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Risks and Cost Impacts


Risers and Tendons represent critical structural and oil containment systems Uncertain environment new phenomena being discovered Uncertain response highly non-linear, stochastic in nature Failure has high cost

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Introduction

Environment
Riser Response to Currents Fatigue Tendons The FIX Analysis Methods and Programs Model Tests and Data Sets Other Issues Areas of R&D Industry Experience Conclusion

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Environment
Geography Mode experiment Types of Ocean Currents Typical and extreme magnitudes Durations Uncertainties, unknowns Combination with other events
Ratio of environmental forces, shallow to deep

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MODE Experiment
WHOI - 1970s Weather in the Oceans Fronts, temporal variation Large scale turbulence Vertical Structure

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Ocean Currents
Tidal Currents (how they exist in deep water) Loop Eddy Storm (wind stress model) Inertial Slope Bottom Boundary Current (Sigsby Escarpment)

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Ocean Currents loop current / eddy current

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Ocean Currents Cold Core Eddy

0.000 0.0 500.0 1000.0

1.000

2.000

Cold Core Current Profile Velocity 3.000 4.000 5.000

6.000

7.000

Depth - feet

1500.0 2000.0 2500.0 3000.0 3500.0

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Inertial and Slope currents


Morpeth
Hurricane Earl

Neptune
Hurricane Georges 1.8 2.2 kts in 2000

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Sigsbee Escarpment

Currents identified from bottom furrows

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0.000 0.0 2.000

Allegheny Current Profiles


Velocity (ft/s) 4.000 6.000 8.000
Orig. Warm Core New Warm Core Profile New Cold Core Profile

Depth - feet

Current profiles

500.0 1000.0 1500.0 2000.0 2500.0 3000.0 3500.0

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Environment
Insert DW Currents presentation

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Introduction Environment

Riser Response to Currents


Fatigue Tendons The FIX Analysis Methods and Programs Model Tests and Data Sets Other Issues Areas of R&D Industry Experience Conclusion

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Riser Response to Currents


Types of Risers: TTR - top tensioned riser SCR - steel catenary riser Flexible riser HCR - highly compliant FSR - free standing riser

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Riser Response to Currents


Typical dimensions
4 flowline SCR 4 flowline SCR with 9 buoyancy 21 drilling riser 48 drilling riser with buoyancy 18 export SCR 120 aircans 8 tieback risers

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Effects of End Conditions


Taper Joint Flexjoint Keel joint Tensioner/Gimbal Guide frames Cantilever wellhead

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PRT at Full Extend, Null, Full Retract

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Riser Response to Currents


Buoyancy, cladding, strakes, etc Touchdown point

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KingKong riser with Buoyancy

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Riser Response to Currents


Static response
Vessel Offset Increased drag due to VIV Interference analysis Touchdown trench effects

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Riser Response to Currents


Dynamic response
Modal analysis (string, beam models) Bending vs axial modes Finite versus infinite transmission models

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TLP Production Riser Lateral Motion Mode Shape


1 Mode 22 Mode 23 0.9

TLP production Riser Modes 1-2,11-12,22-23


TLP Production Riser Lateral Motion Mode Shape
1 Mode 11 0.9 Mode 10
Relative position, x/L

0.8

0.7

0.6

0.8

0.5

TLP Production Riser Lateral Motion Mode Shape


1 0.7

0.4

0.9
Relative position, x/L

0.6

0.3

0.8 Mode 1

0.5

0.2

0.7

0.4

0.1

0.6
Relative position, x/L

0.3

0 -1
0.5 Mode 2 0.2

-0.8

-0.6

-0.4

-0.2

0 Mode shape

0.2

0.4

0.6

0.8

0.4

0.1

0.3 -1 -0.8 -0.6 -0.4 -0.2

0 0 Mode shape 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1

0.2

0.1

0 -1 -0.8 -0.6 -0.4 -0.2 0 Mode shape 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1

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Mode No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Frequency, Hz 0.090 0.180 0.271 0.363 0.456 0.552 0.650 0.750 0.853 0.959 1.069 1.183 1.301 1.423 1.549 1.680 1.816 1.957 2.103 2.255

Typhoon TLP Tendon Lateral Motion Natural Frequency (Pretension = 1917 kips)
2.5

2.0

Frequency, Hz

1.5

1.0

0.5

0.0 0 2 4 6 8 10 Mode Number 12 14 16 18 20

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Illustration of SCR Inplane Modes


4.0E-04 3.0E-04

Curvature (1/ft)

2.0E-04 1.0E-04 0.0E+00 -1.0E-04 -2.0E-04 -3.0E-04 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 Mode 1 Mode 5 Mode 10

Node Number

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2500

2000

LOCAL-1 AXIS

1500

LOCAL-1 AXIS

1000

500

-500

-2250 -1750 -1250

-750

-250

250

750

-500

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

Mean Position Mode No. 2

Mean Position Mode No. 32

-2250 -1750 -1250

-750

-250

250

750

LOCAL-3 AXIS ; VP=(0.00,0.00,1.00)

LOCAL-3 AXIS ; VP=(0.00,0.00,1.00)

Examples of SCR Mode Shapes

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7.0E-03

Max Curvature (1/ft)

6.0E-03 5.0E-03 4.0E-03 3.0E-03 2.0E-03 1.0E-03 0.0E+00 0 50 100 150 200 250
Mean Position - G68_m ean_2D_XY_110 Mode No.50 - G68_m ean_2D_XY_110

In-plane Mode Number


3000 3500

LOCAL-1 AXIS

-500

0 -1000

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

-500

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

LOCAL-3 AXIS ; VP=(0.00,0.00,1.00)

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Steady Flow Response for an Infinite Beam with Finite Length Excitation
1 0.5

L power in = 4.5
Standing wave excitation

n o i t a t i c x e

0 -0.5 -1 -400 0.6

-300

-200

-100

100

200

300

400

e d u t i 0.4 l p m a e 0.2 s n o p s 0 e -400 r

Traveling waves Standing wave response


-300 -200 -100 0 100 200 300 400

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Matterhorn Production Risers

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Matterhorn production riser from main deck

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Jolliet Single Piece Tendon


Steel tendons 24 in diameter.

Provided by Steve Leverette Atlantia Offshore Limited

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Riser Response to Currents


VIV response characterization
Strouhal number, Reduced velocity Cl (AOD, Re, Vr) Pre-lockin, Lock-in, lock-out Power in, versus damping and radiation Effects of damping on response Power balance solution

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VIV Characteristics
St = f st D U
Strouhal Number Reduced Velocity

Vr =

U f st D

St=0.2, Vr=5

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Historical Shear7, Clift Formulation

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Pre-lock-in, Lock-in, Lock-out

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Dynamic Response Power Balance

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Power Balance

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Riser Response to Currents

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Riser Response to Currents


Single-mode vs Multi-mode

In-line vs transverse

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Riser Response to Currents


Bending and increased drag effects Spectral approach to response Uncertainties in response Typical hot spots Types of currents that are problematic Effect of increased tension (decrease mode, reduce bending)

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Agenda
Introduction Environment Riser Response to Currents

Fatigue
Tendons The FIX Analysis Methods and Programs Model Tests and Data Sets Other Issues Areas of R&D Industry Experience Conclusion

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Fatigue caused by VIV

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Fatigue
Miners rule

D=
i =1

ni Ni

log N = log a m log log N = log a m log [ (t/tref)k] API, AWS DOE, DnV

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Fatigue

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Fatigue

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One Year of Tension Spectra


Allegheny (Kips)2/Hz Tendon 1

1.8

100000

1.6
10000

1.4
1000

1.2

frequency (Hz)

100

1
10

0.8
1

0.6

0.1

0.4

0.2

0.01

01/01/01 00:00

02/26 12:00

04/24

06/19 12:00

08/15 Date

10/10 12:00

12/06

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Safety Factors
Depends on application Typically 3 for structures Typically 10-20 for risers

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Fatigue
Fracture Mechanics
Frequency Sensitivity: mode, curvature, no. cycles Ways to combine response modes
Rainflow Spectral approach to fatigue (Wirsching, Dirlik)

Sensitivity to assumptions

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Introduction Environment Riser Response to Currents Fatigue

Tendons
The FIX Analysis Methods and Programs Model Tests and Data Sets Other Issues Areas of R&D Industry Experience Conclusion

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Tendons in VIV
OTC Paper
Leverette, Rijken, Thompson, Dooley

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Introduction Environment Riser Response to Currents Fatigue Tendons

The FIX
Analysis Methods and Programs Model Tests and Data Sets Other Issues Areas of R&D Industry Experience Conclusion

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The FIX

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Sh e ll G lo b a l So lu tio n s

Fairings for drilling riser

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Fairings for TLP tendon

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Fairings in moonpool

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Half strakes for pipelines

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Agenda
Introduction Environment Riser Response to Currents Fatigue Tendons The FIX

Analysis Methods and Programs


Model Tests and Data Sets Other Issues Areas of R&D Industry Experience Conclusion

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Analysis Methods and Programs


Engineering tools, not simulators Summary of how they work Comparisons Why they vary so much CFD Wake models and other approaches

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Flow diagram of Shear 7 Analysis

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Riser Response to Currents

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3 4 2 1

Figure 8: Shear7 4.3 defines a smoothed lift coefficient curve by fitting two parabolas to three points defined by four user-specified values.

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VIV Program Comparison (Stride JIP - 2H) RMS and Damage

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VIV Program Comparison 2 (Stride JIP - 2H) RMS and Damage

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Example Shear7 Analysis

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Analysis Methods and Programs


Shear7, Viva, Vivana, Vivarray Engineering tools, not simulators Summary of how they work Comparisons / Example Why they vary so much CFD Wake models and other approaches

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Agenda
Introduction Environment Riser Response to Currents Fatigue Tendons The FIX Analysis Methods and Programs

Model Tests and Data Sets


Other Issues Areas of R&D Industry Experience Conclusion

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The Literature

Review Papers Parkinson (1974, 1989) Sarpkaya (1979, 1995) Griffin and Ramberg (1982) Bearman (1984) Pantazopoulos (1994) Books Blevin 1990 Chen 1987 Naudascher and Rockwell 1994 Sumer and Fredsoe 1997 Au-Yang 2001

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Recent Model Tests and Data Sets


Deepstar St Johns, CFD, Lake Seneca Stride (2H Allegheny and model tests) VIVA PMB HCR Lake Pend Oreille BP Exxon Shell

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Introduction Environment Riser Response to Currents Fatigue Tendons The FIX Analysis Methods and Programs Model Tests and Data Sets

Other Issues
Areas of R&D Industry Experience Conclusion

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Other Issues
Wake effects, riser arrays High Re performance of fairings/strakes Issue of low mass systems, frequency independence Directionality of currents, resulting stress hot spots Directionality of response amplitude Trenching

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Trenching

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Introduction Environment Riser Response to Currents Fatigue Tendons The FIX Analysis Methods and Programs Model Tests and Data Sets Other Issues

Areas of R&D
Industry Experience Conclusion

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Areas of Research and Development

Empirical CFD Fairings JIPs


MIT - VIVA MIT - Vandiver JIP and Shear7 Deepstar (ARA CFD, Principia CFD, Lake Seneca, St. Johns) Several CFD proposals out

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Slides from Chevron (O. Oakley)

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riser undergoing hydro-elastic response; mesh and vorticity contours in the wake are shown; note the difference in the shed wake pattern between the nodes and the anti-nodes of the structure

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Vortex Dislocations Visualizations


Re=100 Experiments C.H.K. Williamson (1989) Remax=100 R-DNS Simulations

Remax=1000 R-DNS Simulations

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Re=100k

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Re=600k

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Re=4MM

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Grid for cylinder

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Strip theory approach to riser modeling (J. Kallinderis)

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Constant Contours of Spanwise Vorticity (non-dimensional) M IHC C G

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Numerical Modeling
CFD = computational fluid dynamics, solution of Navier-Stokes equations for fluid flow
U xi i =
j

= 0 i ) 1 xi x j

U
x

(
j

j x j

(
j

) x j

DNS direct numerical solver


DES

CFD Approach:

DNS

LES

RAN S S-A k- k- SMC, ..

none

Smag . S-A ..

S-A

Turbulence Model

LES turbulence model spatial filter representation of turbulence fluctuations

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CFD Spars

2dof Modeling Straked Cylinder


No chains, pipes or anodes S-A turbulence model Re = 34MM Navier-Stokes Solution: URANS - time averaging LES space averaging DES RANS in boundary layer & LES outside

RANS Grid

DES Grid

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Displacement History Genesis spar, strakes only

Pressure
DES

Velocity Mag.

Pressure
RANS

041707S ES 04/17/01 07:00:01 0

-10

-20

-30

Northings (ft)

-40

-50

-60

-70

-80

-90 30

40

50

60

70 80 Eas tings (ft)

90

100

110

120

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Lock-in Slope

Locked in

Lock-out Slope

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Objectives and Challenges for High Mode Number, Flow-Induced Vibration Model Tests in Sheared Flow
Prof. J. Kim Vandiver MIT June 3, 2003

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Principal Issues for High Mode Number VIV Response Prediction Does lock-in occur at high mode number in uniform and sheared flow? What are the statistics of single versus multi-frequency response in sheared flow? What are the statistics of in-line and crossflow response?

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Principal Issues for High Mode Number VIV Response Prediction

Do hydrodynamic damping models need improvement? What fairing or strake coverage is required What is the effect of Reynolds number on St, CL damping and suppression effectiveness.

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Important dimensionless groups


1. m mass ratio f D2

2. VR =

U ( x) , Reduced velocity fv D
4. What about correlation length?

3.

Rn n Reduced damping f U 2 ( x) Lin

5. s =

2 n m

rs

, and n t =

2L

Modal damping and wave attenuation


6. Re = DU ( x )

, Reynolds number

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How is lock-in affected by mass ratio versus reduced velocity bandwidth?

1.

m mass ratio f D2
VR U ( x) , dVR = = lock-in bandwidth fv D VRc

2. VR =

f v = the vibration frequency


Is the response different if the wake adjusts its frequency to match the cylinder or the natural frequency adjusts to match the wake.

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A/D versus Reduced velocity (based on a fixed natural frequency)


mr=0.78

VR VRc

mr=34

Castine field experiment in uniform flow(1981) Uniform flow on short lengths(75 feet)
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Cable, pipe and wire rope properties

Cable was PVC plastic tubing with accelerometers, wires, strength members and potting compound, D=1.25 inches., s.g.=1.4 Pipe was 1.631 inch steel tube with the cable pulled inside as the measuring instrument. S.g.=2.4 Wire rope was polyethylene coated oceanographic wire, 3x19 construction. D=.28 inches, s.g.=2.5

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Castine pipe response, L=75 ft, D=1.63 inches, specific gravity = 2.4

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Pipe lock-in and non-lock-in response

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Castine cable cross-flow VIV, D=1.25 inches specific gravity = 1.4

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Stable lock-in events are aided by isolated natural frequencies with no overlap.

Cable, s.g.=1.4 Ca= 0 and 1.0 Frequency Hz Pipe, s.g.=2.4

Tension

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An example from Helland Hansen: Peak frequencies versus time. What is going on?
Power Spectra, Helland-Hansen, DACOS 2 (x-acc) 98-05-08 100 90 98-05-07 80 70 60 98-05-05 50 40 98-05-04 98-05-06 Date [YY-MM-DD]

From Robit Helland Hansen Report

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Wire rope: L=75 ft, D=0.25 inches, specific gravity = 2.6 Steady beating around 6th mode, components 0.6 Hz apart Reduced velocity bandwidth of +-20%=+-2.6Hz

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Does lock-in occur at High Mode Number ?


Increase in Uniform flow speed Increasing overlap of competing modes Reduced velocity bandwidth of +-20% would include many modes. Can just one respond in a uniform flow? What happens in shear?
Increasing Overlap with Mode Number +/- 20 % Bandwidth
30 25

Mode Number

20 15 10 5 0 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 Uniform Flow Speed (m/s)

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Wire rope: L=900 ft, D=0.280 inches, specific gravity = 2.5

Nearly uniform flow on a 900 foot long sample. +- 10% flow variation along the length Lock-in at 50th mode Conclusions: High mass ratio provides stable sharp resonances. VR bandwidth allows for some spatial tolerance to flow variations. Single frequency dominance is possible in nearly uniform flows, even at high mode number.

A O The role ofLdamping in uniform flow? The reduced damping is a statement of dynamic equilibrium.
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Two forms are equal: s me - Griffin = 8 2 St2 f D2 s Sg = rs n Vandiver f U n2

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A useful property is that: < C L , n > = 2 Su qn , the equation of an D hyperbola for lines of constant lift coefficient.

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10

Lift Coe fficie nt in P has e with Ve locity at Lock-in Cl=2S g*A/D Cl =0.2 0.5 1.0 Cylinde r Data

D / 10 A Peak e s Response n o (A/D) p s e -1 r k 10 Cl =0.01 a e 0.02 P 0.05 0.10


10
-2

10

-2

10

-1

10

10

Re duce d Damping, S g

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w ith a p o w er-in reg io n o f len g th L in h as a reso n an t m o d al resp o n se g iven b y: C L ,n qn = D 2 C L ,n wU n 2 L in = R n n 2Su

In red are 3 k ey p aram eters in p red ictio n p ro g ram s. T h ey form a d im en sio n less g ro u p S u an d C L , n A verag e m o d al lift co efficien t 8 2 S t2 M n n R n n = wU 2 L in w D 2 L in

Su =

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Consider a simple slab flow problem first to illustrate the example of limited power-in length.

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Shroud created a still water damped region Uniform flow power-in region

Lin L U

Shroud covers this length, creates still water around the cylinder

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Example Experimental Data for a Slab Flow


Tsahalis, D. T., Experimental Study of the Vortex Induced Vibrations of a Long Model Riser Exposed to Uniform and Nonuniform Steady Flow, Houston, Texas, Westhollow Research Center, 1985. Thank you to Shell Global Solutions for allowing me to publish these results.

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Steel pipe, O.D. = 1.5in(3.81cm) I.D. = 1.334in(3.39cm)

Experiment Details

U= 0.33 to 6ft/s(0.1 to 1.83 m/s) in steps of 0.33ft/s(0.1m/s), modes 1 thru 3. Biaxial accelerometers at 5 points: L/8, L/4, L/2, 5L/8, AND 5L/6.

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Shrouds used to simulate slab flow cases.


100% 87.5% 75.0% 62.5% 50.0% 37.5% 25.0%

Exposed length of cylinder in 7 steps


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1.6
Peak response A/D, mode 2

Reduced Velocity versus Mode 2, peak A/D for various fractions of exposure length

Vr =

U fv D

1.4 1.2 1.0 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.0 0.0


Lin=25% Lin=50% Lin=87.5%

Delta Vr = 0.42

2.0
Lin=25% Lin=62.5% Lin=87.5%

4.0
Lin=37.5% Lin=62.5% Lin=100%

6.0
Lin=37.5% Lin=75% Lin=100%

8.0

10.0
Lin=50% Lin=75% Lin=100%

Vr, based on vibration frequency

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Agenda
Introduction Environment Riser Response to Currents Fatigue Tendons The FIX Analysis Methods and Programs Model Tests and Data Sets Other Issues Areas of R&D

Industry Experience
Conclusion

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Industry Experience (interesting bits of history)

BNOC West of Shetlands BP Scheihellion experiences Exxon Brazil Andaman Sea West Seno Risers and Tendons Auger Top Tensioned Sales Riser Allegheny SCR clashing Allegheny trenching Matterhorn (effects of cantilevered wellhead, strakes help installation, cold core re-fit) Typhoon SCR design and cold core issue Discovery of cold core/submerged current events Atlantis (and Thunder Horse) Sigsby Escarpment, high bottom currents, full straked riser 7200 WD, 12 deg top, ~10,000 for 2 export, 6 production

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Agenda
Introduction Environment Riser Response to Currents Fatigue Tendons The FIX Analysis Methods and Programs Model Tests and Data Sets Other Issues Areas of R&D Industry Experience

Conclusions

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Summary and Conclusions


VIV is significant design issue in deep water Highly non-linear in excitation and in damage Instability of wake, not easy to predict Industry addressing problem through many studies and investigations We can confidently design for it using high safety factors As go to ultra deep, cost of high safety factors is prohibitive, additional progress needed.

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