Application of numerical simulation to flow induced corrosion in flowing seawater system

An established model was presented as a new kind of means for investigating flow induced corrosion. In this method the near-wall hydrodynamic parameters including wall shear stress tau and mass transfer coefficient k near the wall of materials can be numerically calculated, and combining corrosive kinetics tested by experiments, the corrosion rates can be also calculated accurately. The flow induced corrosion mechanism was further verified by numerical results in this model, and the various corrosion phenomena were explained. The modelled results also show that the ability to accurately utilize numerical method to study flow induced corrosion strongly to some extent depends on material corrosive kinetics processes tested by experiments.