Modelling the confinement of spilled oil with floating booms
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| Article Title | Modelling the confinement of spilled oil with floating booms  | 
|---|---|
| ERA Journal ID | 48 | 
| Article Category | Article | 
| Authors | Zhu, Song Ping (Author) and Strunin, Dmitry V. (Author) | 
| Journal Title | Applied Mathematical Modelling: simulation and computation for engineering and environmental systems | 
| Journal Citation | 25 (9), pp. 713-729 | 
| Number of Pages | 18 | 
| Year | 2001 | 
| Publisher | Elsevier | 
| Place of Publication | United States | 
| ISSN | 0307-904X | 
| 1872-8480 | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/S0307-904X(01)00008-7 | 
| Web Address (URL) | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0307904X01000087 | 
| Abstract | [Abstract]: An effective mechanical method of confining the oil spills in an open ocean is to use barriers such as floating booms. However, the confined oil may leak beneath a boom if either the towing speed of the boom or the amount of oil is too large. In this paper a simple mathematical model based on the potential theory is presented for the two-layer (oil and water) flow near a vertical barrier. A set of non-linear integral equations is formulated and solved numerically. For the indirect approach we adopted to solve the non-linear integral equations, the water velocity at the water-oil upstream contact point becomes a determining parameter of the final results. It is shown that the oil leakage under the barrier is impossible if the contact point is a stagnation one. For other non-stagnation cases, we were able to compute flows up to critical Froude numbers beyond which the oil will leak underneath the barrier.  | 
| Keywords | engineering; mathematics; modelling; mechanics | 
| ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 401199. Environmental engineering not elsewhere classified | 
| 401706. Numerical modelling and mechanical characterisation | |
| Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author.  | 
| Byline Affiliations | University of Wollongong | 
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9y473/modelling-the-confinement-of-spilled-oil-with-floating-booms
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