MARIN fills in the VIV gaps of the Gravity Actuated Pipe (GAP) concept

Over the last half year MARIN has worked extensively with SBM to study the challenging hydrodynamic aspects of the GAP system, using the High Reynolds VIV test set-up in the High Speed Basin. A 2D scale 1:5 model of 3.6 m length was extensively tested. The Reynolds numbers could be preserved in the tests by scaling the speed up by factor five.