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Modeling hydrate-bearing sediment with a mixed smoothed particle hydrodynamics

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Marine gas hydrate is an important energy source while its extraction may induce environmental problems such as subsea landslide, which is usually challengeable for numerical simulation due to the marine environment with high pressure and the existence of gas hydrate. Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is a Lagrangian particle method which is attractive in modeling problems with large deformations and fluid–solid interactions (FSI) for continuum and granular materials. However, the conventional SPH suffers from numerical instability when modeling the soil mechanics with the high confining stress. A mixed SPH is developed in this study to simulate hydrate-bearing sediment with the characteristics of high confining stress. In the mixed SPH model, the conventional SPH is used to discretize the momentum equations, and the kernel gradient correction (KGC) SPH is used to discretize strain and spin rate tensors. In order to consider the effect of hydrate saturation on the strength of soil-hydrate material, an existing linear model is applied into the mixed SPH to define the mechanic parameters of soil-hydrate material. The mixed SPH method is validated by several examples and the obtained numerical results are in close agreement with experimental observations. Finally, the mixed SPH method is used to model landslide of hydrate bearing sediments. The results show that the saturation of hydrate has important impact on the stability of hydrate bearing sediments.

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Acknowledgements

The work has been financially supported by the Joint Program of Beijing Municipal Foundation and Education Commission (Grant No. KZ202010009015), the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant No. 51779003), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11702294), Beijing Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 4204097), the Research and Development Program of Handan Science and Technology (Grant No. 19422121008-25) and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (CPSF) (Grant No. 2019M660310). Great appreciation is also given to Dr. Ding Chen, Dr. Shaohan Zhao and Dr. Yingnan Wang who provided helpful suggestions for this work. The authors are also grateful to the referees while the constructive suggestions greatly improved the paper.

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  1. School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, North China University of Technology, Beijing, 100144, China

    C. Huang

  2. BIC-ESAT, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

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  3. Institute of Ocean Research, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    C. Huang & M. B. Liu

  4. State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    C. Huang & M. B. Liu

  5. School of Water Conservancy and Hydroelectric Power, Hebei University of Engineering, Hebei Province, 056006, China

    C. Huang

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Huang, C., Liu, M.B. Modeling hydrate-bearing sediment with a mixed smoothed particle hydrodynamics. Comput Mech 66, 877–891 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00466-020-01895-1

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