Currenting working project:

—–Ormen Lange Mid Northern Field
a. Spool bend moment capacities.
b. MEG spool design.

Other project proposals:

I have quite a lot in my mind. However, I may be lack of funding to really start them. Anyway, who knows what will happen? I will keep them, keep them.

Numerical simulation of ice dynamics by using Physical engines

Physical engines like PhysicX and Bullet are powerful on simulating rigid body dynamics. Ice interactions with structures, espcially level ice, could be simplified as rigid body dynamics instead of continuum mechanics.

Numerical simulation of ice cracks and ice/structure interactions;

Numerical simulation of ice cracks is still in its early stage, let alone the ice/structure interactions. But this is really an interested area. Now I’m thinking of using the so called XFEM method to simulate the ice cracks. Some arguments are:
a. XFEM is not mesh dependent;
b. XFEM is not computational demand as cohesive element method;
c. XFEM is not using “elment erosion”, which has been criticized by the majority of  the ice community;
d. XFEM is still in its early stage and no application has been initiated to simulate the ice behaviors.

Theorectical investigation of impact mechanics by considering the restoring force;

Theorectical and numerical analysis of the moment capacities of spool bends.