Good day to you all. If you are familiar with "Jumpers" (underwater flowlines which connect under Subsea christmas trees to Subsea Manifolds), they are designed as straight spools. The assumption is that the outlet from the wellhead and inlet to the manifold are on a straight line. Now in reality that is not the case in many instances. My question is this, in the scenario where there's an offset so that they are no longer on a straight line, how do you simulate that condition in CAESAR II? do you do that by preparing a model and then specifying a displacement or is there another way? Also there is a firm I'm working for who do not use CAESAR II and i want to recommend a stress analysis software for them; what are those parameters would I use as a basis for making recommendations for the particular software to use?

Enthusiastic stress engineer