STUDY OF FLOW BEHAVIOR IN A VIBRATING PIPE ON OFFSHORE PLATFORM

摘要

The purpose of this paper is to study flow behavior in a vibrating pipe on offshore platform. The mathematical model of unsteady, incompressible, viscous flow in a vibrating pipe is established according to the basic theory of oscillating fluid mechanics. The governing equations of flow are decomposed into a system for steady flow and another for flow oscillation, with the equations of the differential coefficients of flow parameters solved by using the parametric polynomial method. Velocity and pressure distributions are obtained for different flow conditions. Numerical results indicate that the flow behavior in the vibrating pipe on offshore platform is strongly affected by fluid properties and the pipe structure. A good agreement is obtained when comparing the results with the variational solution in constant cross-section, which shows that the method proposed in this work is effective for studying flow behavior in a vibrating pipe on offshore platform.