Scour monitoring system for subsea pipeline based on active thermometry: Numerical and experimental studies

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1490-1509

  Zhao, Xuefeng ^a   Li, Weijie ^a   Song, Gangbing ^b   Zhu, Zuo ^a   Du, Jun ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Active thermometry; Brillouin optical fiber sensor; Numerical simulation; Scour monitoring; Subsea pipeline

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE THERMOMETRY; HEAT TRANSFER BEHAVIOR; NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; OPTICAL FIBER SENSING; OPTICAL FIBER SENSOR; SCOUR MONITORING; SCOUR-MONITORING SYSTEMS; SUB-SEA PIPELINES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MONITORING; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SENSORS; THERMOMETERS; WATER PIPELINES;

SCOUR;

EID: 84875173775     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s130201490     Document Type: Article

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