The safety of offshore structures is a key topic in developing offshore oil and gas and offshore wind energy. Due to the harsh offshore environment and costly offshore field tests, offshore field trials to validate the theoretical models for offshore structures are limited, and testing results can rarely be found in the public domain. The Bayesian updating technique combines existing engineering knowledge with the observed per...

Erosion in centrifugal pumps for transporting flows with dilute particles is a main pump failure problem in many engineering processes. A numerical model combining the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and Discrete Element Method (DEM) is applied to simulate erosion in a centrifugal pump. Different models of the liquid-solid inter-phase forces are implemented, and the particle-turbulence interaction is also defined. The inert...