The Application of A Combined Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to Increase The Prediction Accuracy of Sediment Grading in Subsea Pipes: A Literature Review

Abstract

In recent years, the implementation of subsea pipelines for oil and gas transportation has increased. One of the important aspects of the design process of the subsea pipeline is scour prediction. Scouring causes the subsea pipeline to lose its support and is susceptible to failure due to deflection. This paper presents the result of a literature review of scouring-related research to obtain a method to increase scouring prediction accuracy. Based on the literature research, it is known that the errors found in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) are mainly affected by the flow models. Existing flow models cannot fully represent the complexity of turbulent flow that occurs during the scouring process. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) can reduce the error value. But, the CFD-ANN hybrid methods can potentially decrease the error value by about 20% more than CFD. Therefore, the CFD-ANN hybrid method is expected to be a new method that could be used to predict subsea pipeline scouring in the oil and gas industry.