Coastal zone oil spill modeling

This work presents the development and application of a three-dimensional oil spill model for predicting the movement of an oil slick in the coastal waters of Singapore. In the model, the oil slick is divided into a number of small elements for simulating of the oil processes of spreading, advection, turbulent diffusion. This model is capable of predicting the horizontal movement of surface oil slick. Satellite images and field observations of oil slicks on the surface in the Singapore Straits are used to validate the newly developed model. Compared with the observations, the numerical results of the oil spill model show good conformity. In this study, the 3d model was generated using the geometrical data of Singapore Straits waters by GAMBIT which is a pre-processor of FLUENT programmed.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kanani Khosroshahi, Jamshid
Format: thesis biblioteca
Language:Persian
Published: Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Oil Engineering 2009
Subjects:Engineering, Pollution,
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1834/35913
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