Engineering Simulation

Solutions for Offshore

and Subsea

Harish Radhakrishnan
ANSYS Inc.

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 Oil and Gas Market Overview
Macro Drivers
Shifting supply side
687.44 billion barrels of oil (bbl) in proven reserves
Depleting sources of easily accessible oil especially
outside of Middle East.
Reserve degradation of the super majors
Rise of independents and national oil companies
Viability of unconventional resources
Tar sand, oil shale and coal-to-liquid, ultra-deep sea
Increasing demand
Not sustainable at 106mb/d usage projected by 2030
Growing global demand for automotive
Global capacity to refine crude is not expanding rapidly
Need for cleaner burning liquid fuel
Role of natural gas
Natural gas to increase by 51% from 2005-2030 to 158
Trillion cubic feet
Electricity generation from Natural gas will increase to
5.5% and 4.6% respectively in China and India
Increase production and transport of liquefied natural gas
(LNG)
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 Key Market Problems
Reliable and Safe Product and
Processes - Drilling and Production
Inherently complex problems
Deep-waters, high pressures
Temperature variation
Hurricane, waves,
Dense areas, combustible and
hazardous products
Drilling through complex geology,
long distances
Many production and processing
equipment : Topside, subsea
Enormous cost
Human life
Environmental concerns
Delays and fines
Loss of capital, time and equipment

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 ANSYS Presence
Diverse Range of Applications

Oil-Water-Gas Flare Stacks Logging While Drilling

Separators Fluidized Catalytic Mud Drilling Fluid
Anchor Chain Drag Cracker (FCC) Mud Sedimentation
Ball Valves Furnaces Pipe Manifolds
Boilers Gas Dispersion Pumps
Cage Valve Erosion Gas Lifts Radial Reactor
Cementing Gas Processing Smoke Accumulation
Check and Chock Valves Gas Separation Storage Tank Collapse
Downhole Filter Erosion Generators Subsea Blow-out
Downhole Injectors Heat Exchangers Subsea Landslide
Drill Bit Cooling and Horizontal Drilling Subsea Oil Cooling Coils
Cuttings Removal Hydrocyclones Vortex Induced Vibration
Drill Bit Design Jet and Pool Fires
Drill Bit String and Leaks and Seals
Electronic
Fire Suppression

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 Example
Applications

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 Global Assessment of Floaters

Remaining new Oil & Gas

fields largely offshore, and
in ever deeper water
One off designs
High capital investment
Failure consequences high
Extreme environmental
conditions
Ultra deep water
Hurricanes
Difficult to physically
prototype given the design
requirements

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 Global Assessment of Floaters

Many considerations
Stability
Integrity of
mooring/tether systems
Dynamic positioning
(station keeping)
Fatigue of
moorings/risers
Wave slamming
VIM/VIV
Structural integrity
Human factors

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 Complete Solutions

The ANSYS solution provides

tools for all aspects of offshore
simulation
ANSYS CFD can be used to
provide input to ANSYS AQWA
for viscous effects
ANSYS CFD can also be used
to examine specific design
issues that require better
physical modeling, such as
wave slamming and ride-up,
sloshing
The interface to ANSYS
Mechanical products provides
a simple and accepted method
for assessing structural
adequacy of floating offshore
vessels

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Drill Bit Analysis

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 Cementing/Mudflow in Casings
Some images
courtesy of Halliburton

Experimental cutaway of cementing in an eccentric gap used for Velocity profile in an eccentric gap (left), contours of turbulent
validation of CAE simulation. viscosity (right)

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Gas Dispersion
Some images courtesy of Kerr-McGee North Sea

Some images courtesy of BMT

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Flare Radiation

Fuel to
Wind ratio
1:2

Fuel to
Wind ratio
2:1

Flame shape and shroud surface

temperature for two different fuel
and wind ratios
Flare flow pathlines,
coloured by
temperature

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Wave\Wind Loading

Transient pressure distribution caused by ocean waves on

an shallow water platform

Some images courtesy of BP

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Application Examples
Off-shore structures

Static Structural Analysis Modal Analysis Harmonic Analysis

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Blast Analysis

Simulated Faade
stress on a Detonation
section of Response
LPG tanker

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Umbilical, Risers & Flexible
Piping

Equivalent stress response of the multi-

layer umbilical to a 36 degrees bend
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 Application Examples
Thermo-Mechanical Analysis of
Umbilicals

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Tank Sloshing
Colored contours of
Without baffles gas, oil and water
in a separation tank

With baffles
Baffle stress

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Renewable Energy : Turbines
Vertical Axis
Marine Turbine

Axial turbine

Blade
stress
analysis

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Propulsion, Propeller Wakes & Cavitation

Courtesy SVA-Potsdam (Potsdam

Model Basin)

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Valves, Chocks, Regulators and Pumps

Wellhead
Thermal
data

Subsea regulator

Flow streamline
Surface temperature
for a petroleum
on a valve surface
control valve
Some images courtesy of Hydril
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Pressure Vessels
Stress, deformation
and fracture

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 Global Design Solutions - Floaters

ANSYS AQWA is primarily for

global mooring performance,
but does much more
Connect /offloading
/disconnect scenarios
Float-over installations
Launching installations
Lifting operations
Transportation
Failure conditions
Air gap
User definable functionality

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Hydrodynamic Modelling

Ship & landing craft Lifting operation AMOG Jacket launch

Floatover Stinger Truss spar Technip

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Hydrodynamic Modelling

Self-installing platform
Shielding Mooring systems
Arup Energy

Cargo lowered Offloading operation SBM FPSO & TLP Concept

onto vessel
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 AQWA-FLUENT Coupling

String draw down rate 1 m/s

15m string attached to top Cylinder mass 5000kg

center of the cylinder

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 Fully Coupled FLUENT-AQWA

Automated coupling
FLUENT and AQWA exchange information at each time
step
Multiphase VOF model with Open Channel Boundary
Condition in FLUENT to include waves effects
Accurate and effective for these subsea applications

Transient FLUENT Drag forces/moments AQWA

simulation with Rigid simulation for
Body motion Global Analysis
Linear and angular velocities

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 Animation

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 Code Check

ANSYS Heritage in Offshore Structural Analysis

ANSYS ASAS system level analysis
ANSYS Mechanical component level analysis
Current ANSYS Offshore Structural Analysis
ANSYS Workbench System & Component
Design Modeler
ANSYS Structural
Splinter/Fatjack/Beamst
Links for coupled simulations

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 ANSYS Mechanical Applications

Offshore Structures
Pipelines and Risers
Tubulars, connectors
BOPs
Pressure vessels
Seals
Hulls
Etc.

Courtesy of ACA Engineering Consultants Courtesy of Delta Marine Engineering Company

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 Design Assessment
- Introduction

What is Design Assessment?

Enables the customer to define additional data that is associated with
their model and then perform custom post processing.
Custom definition of input data, result definitions & solve + post scripts
Without any customisation, it enables the combination of existing
solutions
Static Structural
Flexible Dynamics (at a specific time)
Predefined scripts for BEAMST and FATJACK.

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 ANSYS Structural Mechanics

ANSYS Structural analysis

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 Offshore System level analysis
Requirement Oil & Gas fixed Wind Turbine Oil & Gas
Jacket fixed Jacket Floating
Geometry DM/SCDM DM/SCDM DM/SCDM
Wave + Current ANSYS/Structural ANSYS/Structural ANSYS/Structural
(tubular)
Wave + Current - - Via AQWA
(shell/solid)
Pile analysis Splinter Splinter -
Aeroelastic - ANSYS/Structural -
coupling via shared DLL
Fatigue (tubular) FATJACK FATJACK FATJACK
Fatigue - - OSAP/nCode
(shell/solid)
ULS BEAMST BEAMST BEAMST
(tubular/beam)
ULS (shell/solid) - - OSAP
FSI - - -
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 Tubular Coupled Wave-Structures

Coupled hydro-elastic analysis for tubular framed structures

Fully coupled hydrodynamic loading with non-linear analysis capability
Automatic computation of hydrodynamic damping
Regular and irregular waves
Ability to take RAO results as time history loading
Tube-in-tube contact

Wave loading for application of Morison

forces (coupled for non-linear analyses)
Calculation of added mass due to
marine growth
Hydrodynamic mass calculations
Buoyancy calculations, including
free flooding

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 ANSYS - Code Checks (FATJACK/BEAMST)

Joint Code & Member Code checks including:

AISC 10th edition working stress and 2nd edition LRFD
API RP2a-WSD 21st edition working stress
RP2A-LRFD 1st edition
ISO 19902

Easy-to-use code check facilities including:

Code checks on time histories
Code checks on combined load cases
Visualization of code checks
Ability to use them in combination with ANSYS calculations

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 ANSYS
- Fatigue Assessments

FATJACK module offers both deterministic and spectral fatigue

capabilities
for tubular frame structures subjected to waves and current or wind including
wind gusts
can be used in frequency and time domain
sea states: JONSWAP, Pierson-Moskovitz, Ochi-Hubble, Scot-Weigel and
Shell New Wave, or user-defined wave spectra

FATJACK includes explicit SCF definitions

SCFJ if crown & saddle SCF is known e.g. from empirical formulae
SCFA if SCF is known at specific locations e.g. from FE
SCFB if SCF is constant across a section
SCFP if SCF values vary with location

Automatic (empirically derived) SCF definitions based on

Efthymiou, Wordsworth, Kuang or DS449
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 ANSYS
- Fatigue Assessments: Rainflow counting

Reduces spectrum of varying stress into simple stress reversals

Allows the application of Miners rule to assess fatigue life of structure
subject to complex loading
Based on ASTM E1049-85 (2005) Standard Practices for Cycle Counting
in Fatigue Analysis
It is possible to use results from up to 1000 different transient dynamic
analyses and loading (i.e., multi-directional wave spectra)
Uses Rainflow counting method to produce stress range histogram
Results can be combined using a probabilistic approach, output includes:
fatigue life (based on Miners rule)
usage factors
damage per wave (history)
stress histograms

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 ULS Check in Design Assessment

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 System to component analysis

Detailed joint analysis is possible:

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 Summary

ANSYS continues to offer and invest in significant

capabilities for offshore applications
Significant progress in implementing key features of
ASAS in ANSYS Structural Mechanics products
New Design Assessment tool enabling advanced
customized post-processing, including application of
ANSYS developed code checking tools and user
custom capabilities (not limited to Offshore)
Separate code checking products

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 Thank You

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