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The Effect of Current Incidence Angle on Seabed Scour of Submerged
Jacket Structure
Suhaimi bin Suhaidi
Supervisor: Dr. Mohd Hairil Bin Mohd
Bachelor of Applied Science (Technology Maritime)
School of Ocean Engineering
Universiti Malaysia Terengganu
Scour under the submarine structural component can lead to structural failure.
Therefore, a good understanding of the scouring should be acquired in order to
prevent such catastrophic event. The scouring depends on the shapes of the structure
and the incidence angle of the water current flow direction. To the authors’ knowledge,
there is limited research is being done on the effects of current direction on the seabed
scour around underwater structures. This paper will investigate the scouring
phenomenon for different current incidence angle on the structure with different shape
of the component. Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) software will be used to model
and simulate the scour that happens to the underwater structure. The numerical
investigation is used to predict and find new information and understanding of the
scouring process. The current direction and structures’ shape are expected to
significantly influence the scouring on the structure with a different scour length and
depth.
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