Risers and Moorings

Click on the links below to view project summaries and available reports for completed projects in the following areas:

Riser and Flowline Dynamics/VIV

Year

CFD Simulation of Riser VIV

2007

A New Incompressible Navier-Stokes Method with General Hybrid Meshes and Its Application to Flow/Structure Interactions

2005

Riser Interaction Model: A Combined Time/Frequency Domain Approach

2004

Vortex-Induced Vibration Seminars for MMS Engineers

2004

Evaluation of the Effect of Contact between Risers and Guide Frames on Offshore Spar Platform Motions

2003

Wake II Model for Hydrodynamic Forces on Marine Pipelines for the Wave Plus Current Case

1999

Vortex-Induced Vibration of a Slender Horizontal Cylinder in Currents and Waves

1998

A Dynamic Response of Marine Risers and Tendons

1997

An Experimental Study of the Flow Structures and Hydrodynamic Forces of a Cylinder in a Reversing Flow

1995

Application of the Hybrid-Frequency-Time Domain Method to Offshore Problems

1994

Experimental Study of a Single Riser in Waves and Currents

1994

Unsteady Flow Simulations Using Adaptive Hybrid Grids

1993

An Incompressible Navier-Stokes Method with Adaptive Hybrid Grids

1992

Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of Tendons and Risers

1992

Development of an Educational Software Package for Deep Water Offshore Risers

1991

Effect of Various Parameters on the Dynamic Response of Deep Water Risers

1990

Hydrodynamic Forces on Circular Cylinders in Sinusoidal and Random Oscillating Flow

1990

Coupled Riser/Mooring/Vessel Dynamics

Year

No MODU’s Adrift

2008

Numerical Prediction of Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit Drift during Hurricanes

2007

Studies on Dynamic Interaction between Deep-water Floating Structures and Their Mooring/Tendon Systems

2002

Hull/Mooring/Riser Coupled Dynamic Analysis of a Deepwater Floating Platform with Polyester Lines

2001

Mooring/Riser Reliability

Year

Reliability of Mooring Systems for Floating Production Systems

2006

Reliability Analysis for Mooring System of a Spar in Deepwater Gulf of Mexico

2004

Mooring Line Dynamics

Year

Dynamic Simulation of Polyester Mooring Lines

2004

Wave Interaction With a Pair of Flexible Cylinders

1993