Modeling underwater transport of oil spilled from deepwater area in the South China Sea

Haibo Chen; Wei An; Yunxiang You; Fanghui Lei; Yupeng Zhao; Jianwei Li

doi:10.1007/s00343-015-4230-7

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Modeling underwater transport of oil spilled from deepwater area in the South China Sea

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- Modeling underwater transport of oil spilled from deepwater area in the South China Sea
- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 34, Issue 1, Pages: 245-263(2016)
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  1. State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering Shanghai Jiaotong University
  2. China Offshore Environmental Service Co. Ltd.
  3. China National Offshore Oil Corporation General Research Institute
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- DOI：10.1007/s00343-015-4230-7
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- Online First：01 August 2015，
  
  Published：2016
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Chen, H., An, W., You, Y. et al. Modeling underwater transport of oil spilled from deepwater area in the South China Sea., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 34, 245–263 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-015-4230-7
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Chen, H., An, W., You, Y. et al. Modeling underwater transport of oil spilled from deepwater area in the South China Sea., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 34, 245–263 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-015-4230-7 DOI：

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Based on a Lagrangian integral technique and Lagrangian particle-tracking technique

a numerical model was developed to simulate the underwater transport of oil from a deepwater spill. This model comprises two submodels: a plume dynamics model and an advection-diffusion model. The former is used to simulate the stages dominated by the initial jet momentum and plume buoyancy of the spilled oil

while the latter is used to simulate the stage dominated by the ambient current and turbulence. The model validity was verified through comparisons of the model predictions with experimental data from several laboratory flume experiments and a field experiment. To demonstrate the capability of the model further

it was applied to the simulation of a hypothetical oil spill occurring at the seabed of a deepwater oil/gas field in the South China Sea. The results of the simulation would be useful for contingency planning with regard to the emergency response to an underwater oil spill.

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