Mine impact burial prediction from one to three dimensions
Abstract
The Navy’s mine impact burial prediction model creates a time history of a cylindrical or
a noncylindrical mine as it falls through air, water, and sediment. The output of the model
is the predicted mine trajectory in air and water columns, burial depth/orientation in
sediment, as well as height, area, and volume protruding. Model inputs consist of parameters
of environment, mine characteristics, and initial release. This paper reviews near
three decades’ effort on model development from one to three dimensions: (1) onedimensional
models predict the vertical position of the mine’s center of mass (COM) with
the assumption of constant falling angle, (2) two-dimensional models predict the COM
position in the x,z plane and the rotation around the y-axis, and (3) three-dimensional
models predict the COM position in the x,y,z space and the rotation around the x-, y-,
and z-axes. These models are verified using the data collected from mine impact burial
experiments. The one-dimensional model only solves one momentum equation (in the
z-direction). It cannot predict the mine trajectory and burial depth well. The twodimensional
model restricts the mine motion in the x,z plane (which requires motionless
for the environmental fluids) and uses incorrect drag coefficients and inaccurate
sediment dynamics. The prediction errors are large in the mine trajectory and burial
depth prediction (six to ten times larger than the observed depth in sand bottom of the
Monterey Bay). The three-dimensional model predicts the trajectory and burial depth
relatively well for cylindrical, near-cylindrical mines, and operational mines such as
Manta and Rockan mines.
Description
Applied Mechanics Reviews, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 62, 010802
The article of record as published may be located at http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.3013823
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