Experimental analysis of fluid-structure interaction phenomena on a vertical flexible cylinder: modal coeficients and parametric resonance.

Oil and gas exploitation in deep waters has become more than just a profit business to be a daily necessity, since the world energy matrix is based on fossil components. Risers are offshore structures that are intimately linked with oil and gas exploitation and those are subjected to a great variety...

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Autor: Salles, Rafael
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Repositorio:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da USP
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:teses.usp.br:tde-25082016-085120
Acceso en línea:http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/3/3152/tde-25082016-085120/
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Estrutura offshore
Flexible pipes
Fluid-structure interaction
Instabilidade de Mathieu
Interação fluido-estrutura
Mathieu instability
Offshore structure
Riser
Tubos flexíveis
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Sumario:Oil and gas exploitation in deep waters has become more than just a profit business to be a daily necessity, since the world energy matrix is based on fossil components. Risers are offshore structures that are intimately linked with oil and gas exploitation and those are subjected to a great variety of effects in field, e.g., marine currents, Vortex Induced Vibration (VIV), heave motion caused by gravitational waves, non-linear contact with the sea floor, and many others. Riser dynamics is essentially non-linear and experimental tests in real scale are almost impossible due to a great variety of control parameters acting concomitantly. Small-scale models are a better experimental approach. Nevertheless, there are many structural and hydrodynamical parameters to be evaluated. Considering only vertical risers in the present work, Galerkin\'s modal decomposition is used in order to reduce the dynamics of a vertical flexible cylinder to a few linear modes in which the majority of energy and information are contained. From the modal analysis, added mass and structural parameters damping of a vertical flexible cylinder using data obtained from free-decay tests performed both in water and in air are evaluated. Finally, a modal Mathieu-Hill oscillator with non-linear damping is constructed and, based on aStrutt diagram, modal stability under parametric resonance is discussed.