ANSYS Offshore Products

14.0 Update

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Paul Schofield
paul.schofield@ansys.com
+1 281-676-7001

ANSYS Products for Offshore - 14.0

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Introduction
What are the ANSYS Products for Offshore?
Historical Perspective
On-going Development Themes
14.0 Specifics
Case Studies
Conclusions

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Key Market Problems

Reliable and Safe Product and Processes Drilling and Production
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

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Key Market Problems

Cost of Failure

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Human life
Environmental concerns
Delays and fines
Loss of capital, time and equipment

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Assessment of Fixed Offshore Structures

Structural Integrity
Huge established inventory of fixed
steel platforms
Requirement for on-going structural
integrity and re-assessment
Assessment carried out at the global
(system) level
Additional need for component level
detailed design

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Fixed Structures - Design Solutions

Joint Check

Transportation
Installation
Wave loading
Pile/soil modelling
Beam joint fatigue assessment
Member and joint code checking
Decommissioning

Member Check
Jacket Launch

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Assessment of Floaters
Remaining new Oil & Gas fields

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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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Assessment of Floaters

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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What are the ANSYS Offshore Products?

General Products
DesignModeler/SCDM
ANSYS Mechanical
Explicit
CFX/FLUENT
ANSOFT

EKM
Vertical Applications
AQWA
ASAS?

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EKM

ANSYS Offshore Update Scope

ANSYS Mechanical has been traditionally used for component
analysis.
We will look at capabilities specific to global analysis.
Will discuss what are the plans for ASAS.
ANSYS AQWA will be looked at in more detail here as largely
offshore/marine related product.

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Historical Perspective ANSYS ASAS

For almost 40 years, ANSYS ASAS has been

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successfully used for analyzing a large variety of

offshore structures subjected to wave, current
and wind loading
Many North Sea jacket structures have been
designed with the aid of ASAS
But
Utilization outside of Europe limited
Much duplication with mainstream
Mechanical/MAPDL model
Resulting in transfer of ANSYS ASAS unique solver
technology to ANSYS Structural Mechanics
products
Never any long term scope for
developing/supporting multiple FE products
Recognition of ANSYS ASAS key features
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ANSYS ASAS Migration

CAE requirements for Fixed Offshore
structures:

Variety of foundations ranging from

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concrete gravity-based to steel

jackets
Combined wave, current and wind
loading
Variety of local joint flexibility for
tubular joints
Seismic loading
Soil-pile-structure and soil-pile
interaction
Range from shallow to deep water
conditions
Member and Joint Code Checking
(e.g., API RP2A, AISC, ISO 19902.)
Deterministic, spectral and time
history fatigue
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On-going Development Themes

Software development is structured to reflect solutions to
market problems
Some solutions are common to all markets
Others reflect specific application areas to a given market
The major themes covering the development strategy for this
presentation are:
Safety of offshore structures.
Alternative energy devices (specifically here offshore wind
and wave energy systems).
Workbench migration of existing technologies (specifically
here ANSYS AQWA).
Migration of global analysis capabilities to ANSYS
Mechanical and MAPDL.
Physics coupling.

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14.0 Specifics
Global Offshore Structures

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AQWA Workbench Integration

AQWA Enhanced Environmental Conditions
AQWA Frequency Domain Drag Linearization
Extended Wave Loading in Mechanical
Coupling of Mechanical with Third Party Aeroelastic Tools
Design Assessment

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Enhanced Productivity with Continuing

AQWA Integration in Workbench
Hydrodynamic Time Response system
enhancements include
Fenders (similar to contact)
Allows connections between 2 structures
or between a structure and a fixed point
Articulations (similar to joints)
Connection points on structures now defined
in AQWA, not in original geometry

Offloading arm
represented with series
of typical articulations
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AQWA Enhanced Environmental Conditions

Introduction of multi-directional wave spectra

allows more realistic modelling of real wave
conditions, and is important for the accurate
simulation of moored vessels and offshore
platforms
Almost any combination of wave spectra to
be modelled in the solver modules LIBRIUM,
DRIFT and the Hydrodynamic Time Response
system in Workbench
Gaussian formulated wave spectrum now
available in the core solver and the
Hydrodynamic Time Response system

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AQWA Frequency Domain Drag

Linearization
Courtesy of Technip Offshore Finland

Inclusion of linearized drag on

Morison elements in
Diffraction/Radiation analysis
Determined using a user specified
wave spectrum.
Computation of modified RAOs
using the additional drag.
SF/BM plots can now be made on
models including Morison elements
(and not just ship shaped).
Used in design wave calculations for
mixed models e.g. truss spar.

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Extended Wave Loading in Mechanical

Diffracted wave loading
Provides simplified pressure loading from
Hydrodynamics Diffraction systems (AQWA)
onto MAPDL system
Harmonic Wave Loading
Regular wave loading now available for harmonic
response analyses
ANSYS FATJACK (for beam joint fatigue of framed
structures) automatically reads the RST file data
for harmonic load cases

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Vessel Loading Transfer from

AQWA to Mechanical
Courtesy of Vuyk Engineering Rotterdam

Coupling Mechanical with 3rd Party

Aeroelastic Tools for Offshore Wind
Turbine Modeling
Aeroelastic coupling (for wind turbine support
structures)

Sequential
Allowing structural (ANSYS) and aeroelastic (3rd
party) analyses to be run independently
Just use a provided MAPDL macro to write out
input data for the aeroelastic analysis

Fully coupled
Co-simulation of structural and aeroelastic tools
Custom build of MAPDL required, with a macro to
manage the data availability from and to MAPDL
Images Courtesy of REpower Systems AG

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Sequential Solution Example

MAPDL
Substructure analysis to generate
matrices and load history for aeroelastic code
Top node force
or displacement
time series

MAPDL
Analysis of foundation structure

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Beamcheck

FATJACK

Strength calculations

Fatigue calculations

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Mass matrix
Damping matrix
Stiffness matrix
External force time series

Aeroelastic software
Wave-Wind Analysis

Fully Coupled Solution

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Aeroelastic interface to MAPDL using the USER300 element. This element

allows user defined stiffness, damping and mass data. This utilizes a
shared memory dynamic link library, so requires modification to the
aeroelastic code to facilitate the interface.

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Design Assessment
Design Assessment is a framework for

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post-processing of Mechanical results

Provides out-of-the-box
Load combinations
Regulatory compliance for frame
structures
Joint fatigue
User defined functionality allows access to
external processing similar to MAPDL
customizable
ANSYS BEAMCHECK (for member checks
on framed structures) and ANSYS FATJACK
now delivered with Mechanical
installation (licensed separately)

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Updates to Design Assessment

Extended upstream
capabilities permits
wider application range
Modal
Harmonic Response
Random Vibration
Response Spectrum
Explicit Dynamics

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Expanded Result Access

DA + Allow all
Available Results
allows beam results
Modal=No Beam Results

Filtering of potentially invalid combinations can be suppressed to

enable greater user control. This allows the user to access results
not typically available in the base analysis.
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Design Assessment for Advanced User Defined

Results
Design Assessment enables
users to extend user defined
results capabilities with:
Expressions, including
mathematical operators
Coordinate systems, Units
Systems
Nodal, Element-Nodal &
Elemental result types
Units support for input
parameters
Results may be presented as
contours, vectors or stress
tensor form

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Case Studies
Previous slides have shown some of the developments
undertaken to couple wave loading with structural
applications
Following are example case studies that show how ANSYS
technology can be coupled to good effect to solve complex
problems system level solutions.
Storage Vessel Design, combining CFD, Hydrodynamics and
Structural aspects in one application.
Riser Design, showing how various aspects of the riser
problem can be solved using the ANSYS toolset.

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Case Study
Storage Vessel Design

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Storage Vessel Design

Effects of FPSO Movement
Liquid-gas interface unstable
Need to reduce sloshing to maintain separation efficiency
What stresses are seen by components?

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Can we still use standard baffle configurations?

Bolts and welds
Fatigue loading
Not something thats easy to do experimentally!
Potentially dangerous
Significant cost of rig & instrumentation

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Objectives
Design study for a 12m long storage tank on board an FPSO
Design considerations:
Internal baffle arrangement to reduce sloshing
Operational load characteristics
Sloshing loading
Fatigue
Welds and bolts

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Vessel Motion

Non-accelerating motion

Ship moving at fixed speed

No waves or swell
No acceleration force
No sloshing!

x
z

Free motion

Bow of the ship in a storm

3 Rotations

Roll, Pitch & Yaw

3 Linear Accelerations
Surge, Sway & Heave
Sloshing expected!
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Methodology
Hydrodynamic analysis with a given sea state provides motion profile

for CFD and FEA

Velocity motion profiles applied using Six Degree Of Freedom model
in CFD solve

accelerations could be applied directly to momentum

equations
Volume of Fluid model used to model gas-liquid interface
in CFD solver
Transient one-way FSI, surface pressures mapped from CFD
analysis to FEA model
Displacement profiles from Hydrodynamic solver applied
to FEA model to account for inertia of solid structure

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Simulation Process
Step

Solver

Design Consideration

Output Data

Hydrodynamic

Asses ship hydrodynamic

response to different sea states

Motion Profiles:
Velocities for CFD
Displacements for FEA

Computational
Fluid Dynamics

Analyse baffle design to assess

sloshing

Surface Pressure Profiles

Structural Finite
Element

Analyse stresses to look at

welds and bolt arrangements
and fatigue loading

Hydrodynamics
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Velocity
Profiles
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CFD

Pressures &
Displacements

FEA

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Hydrodynamic Analysis

Motion Profile Output for all six motions, used for CFD and
Structural FE models
Displacements, Velocities and Accelerations
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Surface Pressure
Profile used for
Structural model

Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis

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Structural FEA

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Pressure Loading ONLY

Fluid inertia considered
Fixed constraints to feet
Inertia of solid structure
ignored

Structural FEA with CFD Free Surface

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Case Study
Risers

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Riser Systems
Risers are the physical connectors between an

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oil and gas wellhead and the drilling or

production platform (fixed or floating)
Many different types
Drilling, production
Rigid, flexible, steel catenary, etc
Attached, top tensioned, riser towers, etc
Failure costs are high, both financially and
environmentally

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Riser Systems
Floating systems are operating in deeper waters.

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Mooring and riser systems are a bigger

proportion of the total system
Vessel, mooring system and risers act as an
integrated dynamic system
Vessel motions coupled with slender structural
members motions (mooring and riser)
For physical model test very deep tank required

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Riser Issues
The analysis of risers represents a major

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technical challenge
Extremely long
Highly flexible
Multi-physics requirements
Mechanical (connections and welds)
External hydrodynamic loads
Internal flow assurance
Usually in groups and subject to
interaction effects
Risers are subject to vortex- inducedvibrations (VIV) among one of the the
most complex of fluid-structure
interaction problems

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How We Can Solve Riser Problems

The ANSYS product range provides the toolkit for solving riser design
requirements

Mechanical model for looking at connections (detailed), riser string behavior

(global), tensioning systems, etc.

Hydrodynamic model for investigating effects of riser bundles on floating vessel
response.
Fluids model for flow assurance, VIV, interference effects.

But, at the moment they do not all act in an integrated manner for this type
of application. Further work is necessary to enable best in class capabilities in
this important area.

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Umbilical, Risers & Flexible Piping

Geometry built in
DesignModeler:
Core tubing
6 helical tubes wrapped
around core
External insulation
Loads:
Bent to 36 radius
Hydrostatic loads
End tension
Gravity

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Conclusions
Release 14.0 represents the continuing development of
capabilities and technologies to solve problems commonly
encountered in the Offshore Oil & Gas sector.
The range of physical models enables differing levels of
simulation, offering analyses from the macro to the system
level.
Improved productivity through continuing integration of
AQWA technology into Workbench
Greater exposure of offshore specific structural applications
through the integration of ANSYS ASAS technology into
ANSYS Mechanical and MAPDL

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