Soft marine soils in southeastern coastal areas of China are widely distributed
with occluded gas bubbles that significantly impact soil compressibility. Finite volume (FV) method helps to develop consistent computation method of seabed dynamic response with fluid simulation
and then wave-seabed interaction can be simulated. Operator splitting technique can significantly enlarge time steps for stability of staggered algorithms
and such algorithms can easily be implemented on open-source FV calculation platform
OpenFOAM
thus they are efficient and versatile. Numerical cases indicate that the proposed staggered algorithm can reasonably reflect dynamic responses of highly saturated gassy soil. The existence of occluded bubbles can hugely lower transient responses and amplitudes of pore pressure of highly saturated gassy soil. Meanwhile
when considering gravity
decrease of saturation degree can lead to phase lag of dynamic pore pressure.