Simplified models to predict the breakup of oil on rough seas.

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dc.acquisition-srcen_US
dc.call-noTD427.P4O37 1981en_US
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dc.contributor.authorAravamudn, K.S.en_US
dc.contributor.authorRaj, P.K.en_US
dc.contributor.authorMarsh, Lt. G.en_US
dc.contributor.otheren_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-15T16:56:17Z
dc.date.available2010-02-15T16:56:17Z
dc.date.issued1981en_US
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dc.descriptionp. 153-159.en_US
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dc.description.abstractThis study attempts to integrate existing theoretical models and experimental information on the behavior of oil spills in the ocean into a unified, sequential calculation procedure to predict the breakup of oil on rough seas. Major consideration has been given to developing the least sophisticated calculation procedures that maintain a reasonable description of the totality of the physical process. The prinicipal phenomena included in the prediction of the spill behavior are as follows: combined spreading and evaporation; slick-sea interaction and formation of oil droplets; dispersion of droplets in the water column; and, finally, the formation and dispersion of slicklets caused by turbulence in the ocean. A multicomponent spreading-evaporation model was developed to predict the area, average density, and mass loss because of evaporation from the slick as a function of time for various environmental conditions. On the basis of the well-known Pierson-Moskowitz spectrum for a fully developed sea, models were developed to predict the size of oil droplets and their distribution in the water column. A horizontal dispersion model was developed on the basis of several experimental observations to determine the dispersion of slicklets and predict the total contaminated ocean surface area as a function of time. The integrated model is computerized and has been exercised for four different types of oils, namely, light crude, heavy crude, fuel oil No. 2, and fuel oil No. 6.en_US
dc.description.urihttp://gbic.tamug.edu/request.htmen_US
dc.geo-codeTexas coasten_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1969.3/20202
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dc.locationTAMUG circulating collectionen_US
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dc.relation.ispartofseries2421.00en_US
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dc.subjectoil spillsen_US
dc.subjectoil pollutionen_US
dc.subjectmodelingen_US
dc.titleSimplified models to predict the breakup of oil on rough seas.en_US
dc.typechapteren_US
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