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 pipeline | 0.01 m |
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