Reformulation of Mine Scour Equations Using Observations from MBP Field Sites

A major goal of the ONR Mine Burial Prediction (MBP) Program is to provide the operational Navy simple models for predicting subsequent mine burial by scour which work with a known and useful degree of accuracy in regions of strategic interest, defined initially as sandy inner shelves dominated by waves. In order to be useful under real world conditions, such models must be reasonably accurate and reliable but also simple and fast enough to execute in a practical, straightforward manner by the Fleet. Thus the favored approach must parameterize the complicated and computationally intensive details of localized mine scour. In response to the above needs of the operational Navy, the long-term goal of this project is to determine the practical utility of predicting scour related mine burial using a simple parameterized model based on readily available wave and sediment data.