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Title: Oil Spills in Coastal Zones: Predicting Slick Transport and Weathering Processes
Authors: Carmo, J. Antunes do 
Pinho, J. L. 
Vieira, J. P. 
Keywords: Coastal zones; Oil spills; Numerical simulation; Case study
Issue Date: 2010
Publisher: Bentham Open
Citation: CARMO, J. Antunes do; PINHO, J. L.; VIEIRA, J. P. - Oil Spills in Coastal Zones: Predicting Slick Transport and Weathering Processes. "The Open Ocean Engineering Journal". ISSN 1874-835X. Vol. 3 (2010) p. 129-142
Serial title, monograph or event: The Open Ocean Engineering Journal
Abstract: This paper presents some considerations about environmental consequences of the spills and also about oil spill detection and control. Afterwards, it presents a computational structure that has been developed to forecast the time-space evolution of oil spills in marine environments. This structure was developed based on widely used mathematical formulations for oil spreading and weathering processes. It uses depth-averaged currents obtained from a two-dimensional and/or a quasi-three-dimensional hydrodynamic model, and net wave velocities obtained analytically. A Lagrangian transport model or, alternatively, a Eulerian transport model is used to predict the oil slick transport and spread. General characteristics of the computational structure and the results of its application to two real case studies - the “Cercal” accident on October 1994, and the “New World” tanker accident on December 1994 - are presented. Comparisons of numerical results with measured data are shown and a brief discussion about the computational structure performance is also presented.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10316/14301
ISSN: 1874-835X
DOI: 10.2174/1874835x01003010129
Rights: openAccess
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