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The spoiler is a kind of device to disturb current and promote burying. At present, all submarine pipeline spoilers at home and abroad are parallel spoilers, that is, the plane of the spoiler is parallel to the vertical plane of the pipeline axis. According to the results of indoor experiments, when the pipeline with the forward spoiler is installed perpendicular to the direction of water flow, the spoiler will accelerate the seabed erosion and cause the pipeline to endure downward pressure, which will eventually cause the pipeline self-buried to form a protection. However, when the pipeline direction is consistent with the flow direction, the self-buried behavior and protective effect is vanished. By aiming at the defect that the forward spoiler cannot be self-buried when the direction of the pipeline and the flow are basically parallel, the spoiler burying aid device perpendicular to the pipeline axis has been innovatively developed, and the hydrodynamic changes and sediment erosion characteristics near the pipeline after the installation of the device were studied based on the experiment. Results reveal that although the perpendicular spoiler cannot generate downforce, it can greatly increase the turbulent kinetic energy of the flow and the rate of sediment erosion. The larger the angle between the pipeline axis and the spoiler plane is, the larger the increase in turbulent energy will be. The increase in turbulent energy near the bed surface can reach up about 70% when the angle is 90°, while serious sediment erosion mainly occurs along both sides of the pipeline with a distance of about 2–4 times the pipe diameter. In the future, we can further explore the influence of the perpendicular spoiler size and installation position on the pipeline downforce and the effect of burying promotion. At the same time, field tests on the perpendicular spoiler burying aid device currently developed will conduct to observe the actual effect of perpendicular spoiler promoting pipeline scouring and burying, and improve submarine pipeline safety protection technology.
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Foundation item: This work was financially supported by the National Key Research and Development Plan of China (Grant Nos. 2018YFC0407802-3, 2018YFC0407803 and 2017YFC0405605) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51909069).
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Fan, Hx., Wang, Jz., Zhu, Lj. et al. Experimental Study of Hydrodynamic and Self-Buried Behavior of Submarine Pipeline with Perpendicular Spoilers. China Ocean Eng 35, 250–261 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13344-021-0022-3
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