Characteristics of liquefied soil motion in wavy environment

Abstract

The soil on a seabed will fluctuate with the waves after liquefaction. In this paper, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology General Circulation Model (MITgcm) is applied to investigate the particle movement of the liquefied soil. In the model, viscosity and other parameters were appropriately adjusted to simulate the motion of liquefied soil. The simulated results are consistent with the experimental results. When compared with the theory of Stokes wave, the model is more accurate as the viscosity is taken into consideration. The aforementioned results demonstrate that the MITgcm can be applied successfully to simulate the liquefied soil.