A numerical investigation on quasi-static configuration and nonlinear dynamic response characteristics of marine towing cable

The towed seismic cable system is the main equipment of marine seismic exploration, which is a widely-used technique in oil and gas exploration. The towing cable connects the ship and the towed body, transmitting electricity and signals. The vibration of cable induced by the vortex shedding can affect the signal transmission and thus the exploration efficiency. This paper proposes a time-domain nonlinear numerical model to investigate the cable's dynamic response for deeper understanding the mechanism. A large amount of towing cases for a real-scale towing cable are designed. With the fundamental study on the quasi-static configuration, natural frequency and encountered speed of the cable, its nonlinear dynamic response characteristics are analyzed systematically. The overall dynamic response presents a mixture pattern of traveling wave and standing wave, and multi-modal participation can be readily captured. Besides, the variable cable weights, cable lengths, towing speeds and towed body weights all exert a significant impact on the Root Mean Square (RMS) displacement and excited frequency of the cable's vibration. Associated with VIV mechanism analysis, the response characteristics with different structural physical parameters and working condition parameters are explained reasonably.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2021.110007
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0029801821013445
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  • © 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Guo, Li
  • Yuan, Yuchao
  • 0000-0003-2799-8782
  • Tang, Wenyong
  • Xue, Hongxiang
• Publication Date: 2021-11-15

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Serial:
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Volume: 240
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Pergamon
  • ISSN: 0029-8018
  • EISSN: 1873-5258
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00298018

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cables; Numerical analysis; Ships; Towing devices
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01785431
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 25 2021 9:16AM