Modelling the confinement of spilled oil with floating booms
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Article Title | Modelling the confinement of spilled oil with floating booms |
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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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