Three-dimensional oil spill transport and dispersion at sea by an event of blowout
The simulated droplet trajectories of the 3-D model at the Caribbean platform showed that droplets with a diameter of 50 µm formed a distinct subsurface plume, which was transported horizontally and could remain below the surface. This plume could have a very restricted area of impact because the di...
- Autores:
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Otero-Diaz, Luis
Pierini, Jorge O.
Chambel-Leitao, Paulo
Malhadas, Madalena
Ribeiro, Joao
Chambel-Leitao, Jose
Restrepo, Juan
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2014
- Institución:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Repositorio:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Idioma:
- spa
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/48920
- Acceso en línea:
- https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/48920
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/42377/
- Palabra clave:
- Blowout
hydrodynamic
spread
oil spill
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
| Summary: | The simulated droplet trajectories of the 3-D model at the Caribbean platform showed that droplets with a diameter of 50 µm formed a distinct subsurface plume, which was transported horizontally and could remain below the surface. This plume could have a very restricted area of impact because the dispersion is only controlled by the ocean currents which, at 1000 m depth, have a low intensity and are quite turbulent. In this case, the formed plume stayed trapped at 1000 m depth, not posing a risk to the Caribbean Coast. In contrast, droplets with diameters of 250 µm, 1 and 10 mm rose rapidly to the surface, even with different velocities (6, 10, 20 ms-1).. |
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