The Deep Water Flume was designed specifically to study the effects of vortex induced vibrations on long slender structures such as deep water risers.

The faicility consists of a large steel tank with internal plate steel fabrications around which the water is made to circulate.

The flow is generated by two 275 kW Worthington Simpson pump sets, each of which discharge through a narrow, vertically positioned slit which acts a s a jet pump. Velocities through the test section are controlled using gate valves which are positioned immediately downstream of the pumps. Uniform velocity profiles vary between 2.5 to 6% over the velocity range. The facility can also be configured to create non-uniform and stepped velocity profiles

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