BREAK UP OF OIL ON ROUGH SEAS - SIMPLIFIED MODELS AND STEP-BY-STEP CALCULATIONS
This study tries to integrate the existing theoretical and experimental information regarding behavior of oil spills in ocean into a unified, sequential calculation procedure. Major consideration was given to developing the least sophisticated calculation procedures which maintain a reasonable description of the totality of the physical processes. The principal phenomena included in the prediction of spill behavior are: combined spreading and evaporation; the interaction of waves with the slick and formation of oil droplets; dispersion of droplets in the water column; and finally the formation and dispersion of slicklets due to turbulence in the ocean. The model has been exercised for four different types of oils: light crude, heavy crude, fuel oil no. 2 and fuel oil no. 6.
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Corporate Authors:
Little (Arthur D), Incorporated
Acorn Park
Cambridge, MA United States 02140United States Coast Guard
2100 Second Street, SW
Washington, DC United States 20593 -
Authors:
- Aravamudan, K
- Raj, P K
- Newman, E
- Tucker, W A
- Publication Date: 1979-10
Media Info
- Pagination: 210 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Dispersers; Dynamics; Evaporation; Fuel oils; Mathematical models; Ocean waves; Oceans; Oil spill cleanup; Oil spills; Pollution; Simulation; Water pollution
- Uncontrolled Terms: Interaction
- Old TRIS Terms: Dispersion; Drops; Oil dispersal; Oil evaporation; Oil spill behavior; Oil spill simulation; Oil spreading dynamics
- Subject Areas: Environment; Marine Transportation;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00314354
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
- Report/Paper Numbers: ADL-83066 Final Rpt., USCG-D-69-79
- Contract Numbers: DOT-CG-843466-A
- Files: NTIS, TRIS
- Created Date: Aug 27 1980 12:00AM