MOVEMENT OF OIL SLICKS

An analysis of the oil slick data associated with the "Torrey Canyon" episode of March-April 1967 and the episode of September 1970 in the Gulf of St. Lawrence showed suprisingly large values of vorticity and divergence. Thus, the individual slicks might be visualized as a set of rectilinear vortices whose movement can be calculated from hydrodynamic considerations. The mutual interaction among the slicks as well as the influence of a steering current in which the oil slicks might be embedded have also been studied. A numerical integration of the ordinary differential equations that result from this formulation have the trajectories of individual slicks. Figures, equations, and curves show contamination and calculations.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Symp on Phys Processes Responsible for Dispersal of Pollut in the Sea with Spec Ref to the Near-Shore Zone, Proceeding, Arhus, Den, July 4-7, 1972.
• Corporate Authors:

  Conseil International pour L'Explor de la Mer

  Charlottenlund Slot, DK 2920
  Charlottenlund,   Denmark 
• Authors:
  • Murty, T S
  • Khandekar, M L
  • Rao, G V
• Conference:
  • Symp on Phys Processes Responsible for Dispersal of Pollut in the Sea with Spec Ref to the Near-Shore Zone, Proceeding, Arhus, Den, July 4-7, 1972.
• Publication Date: 1974

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 66-74

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Dynamics; Oil spills; Pollution control; Water quality management
• Old TRIS Terms: Oil spill behavior; Oil spreading dynamics; Pollution abatement measures
• Subject Areas: Environment; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00128736
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proceeding
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 14 1976 12:00AM