Mine Burial Induced by Local Scour and Sandwaves

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Reformulation of Mine Scour Equations Using Observations from MBP Field Sites

A major goal of the ONR Mine Burial Prediction (MBP) Program is to provide the operational Navy simple models for predicting subsequent mine burial by scour which work with a known and useful degree of accuracy in regions of strategic interest, defined initially as sandy inner shelves dominated by waves. In order to be useful under real world conditions, such models must be reasonably accurate ...

Mine Burial Prediction: A Cooperative NRL/ONR Study

Seabed-structure interactions are responsible for the burial of heavy objects, such as mines, pipelines, concrete breakwaters, platforms, debris, and other objects on the seafloor. In low shear strength muds, these objects are known to bury at impact or to sink into the sediment if the buoyant weight of the object exceeds the bearing capacity of the seafloor. In higher energy sandy sediments, b...

Vortex Lattice Model for Mine Scour and Burial

1) Identify leading order processes; 2) formulate the model and write the computer code; 3) initialize and calibrate the model using archival data; 4) validate the model in a contemporary field experiment with modern mines of various shapes; 5) conduct numerical experiments with the model to determine the relative strength of various scour and burial mechanisms, and the sensitivity of those mec...

Simulation of local scour caused by submerged horizontal jets with Flow-3D numerical model

One of the most concerning issues for researchers is to predict the shape and dimensions of the scour pit nearhydraulic structures such as the base of bridges, weirs, valves and stilling basins due to both financial and humanhazards induced by destruction of the structure. As the scour issue has its own complexity in relation to themultiplicity of effecting factors on it, in this study therefor...