| dc.contributor.author |
do Carmo, J. Antunes |
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| dc.contributor.author |
Pinho, J.L. |
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| dc.contributor.author |
Vieira, J.P. |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2011-02-10T18:49:40Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2011-02-10T18:49:40Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
2010 |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri |
https://hdl.handle.net/10535/7027 |
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| dc.description.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." |
en_US |
| dc.language |
English |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
coastal regions |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
simulations |
en_US |
| dc.title |
Oil Spills in Coastal Zones: Predicting Slick Transport and Weathering Processes |
en_US |
| dc.type |
Journal Article |
en_US |
| dc.type.published |
published |
en_US |
| dc.type.methodology |
Case Study |
en_US |
| dc.subject.sector |
Theory |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.citationjournal |
The Open Ocean Engineering Journal |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.citationvolume |
3 |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.citationpages |
129-142 |
en_US |