Progress in oil spread modeling
Description
Advances in oil spreading models were discussed. Early models concentrated on the physical forces of oil spreading on calm water. The temporal changes in the oil were not considered and slick geometry was idealized to make the equations tractable. Some of these earlier models treated surface oils like a passive pollutant and estimated slick area based on water turbulence. Prediction results in both cases were inaccurate. Recent efforts have attempted to analyze the combined oil-water dynamic system, in particular the three dimensional movement of the oil. The potential of these next generation of oil spreading models was assessed, highlighting the effects of droplet dispersion, sub-surface shear, and Langmuir circulation on oil spreading. 20 refs
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Environment Canada.
- Imprint Place
- Ottawa, ON (Canada)
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of the nineteenth arctic and marine oilspill program (AMOP) technical seminar
- Imprint Pagination
- [914 p.].
- Journal Page Range
- p. 889-894.
Conference
- Title
- 19. arctic and marine oilspill program technical seminar.
- Dates
- 12-14 Jun 1996.
- Place
- Calgary (Canada).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Canada
- Country of Input or Organization
- Canada
- INIS RN
- 28008062
- Subject category
- S02: PETROLEUM;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference, Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- FORECASTING; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; OIL SPILLS; PREDICTION EQUATIONS; SIMULATION; WATER POLLUTION ABATEMENT
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCIDENTS; EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; POLLUTION ABATEMENT; STATISTICAL MODELS; THERMODYNAMIC MODEL
Optional Information
- Notes
- Imprint:2 v.
- Funding organization
- Environment Canada, Ottawa, ON (Canada). Environmental Protection Service; Environment Canada, Ottawa, ON (Canada). River Road Environmental Technology Centre; Environment Canada, Ottawa, ON (Canada).
- Secondary number(s)
- CONF-9606265--.