Research Article

Numerical Study of Wave- and Current-Induced Oscillatory Seabed Response near a Fully Buried Subsea Pipeline

Table 3

Parameters used in the numerical examples.

Wave height (H)4 m or various
Water depth (d)7 m or various
Wave period (T)8 s or various
Wave length (L)61.39 m
Current velocity ()0.4 m/s or various
Seabed thickness (h)20 m
Shear modulus ()107 N/m2
Poisson’s ratio (μ)0.333
Soil permeability (ks)1.5 × 10−3 m/s
Degree of saturation (Sr)0.98
Seabed porosity (n)0.333
Density of soil (ρ)1600 kg/m3
Density of water ()1000 kg/m3
Acceleration of gravity ()9.82 m/s2
Burial depth of pipeline (e)0.5 m
Pipeline diameter (D)1.2 m
Thickness of pipeline0.01 m