Zhu, SongPing and Strunin, Dmitry V. (2001) Modelling the confinement of spilled oil with floating booms. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 25 (9). pp. 713-729. ISSN 0307-904X
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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.
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| Item Type: | Article (Commonwealth Reporting Category C) |
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| Refereed: | Yes |
| Item Status: | Live Archive |
| Additional Information: | Author's version deposited in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
| Faculty / Department / School: | Historic - Faculty of Sciences - Department of Maths and Computing |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Oct 2007 01:15 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Jul 2013 22:47 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | engineering; mathematics; modelling; mechanics |
| Fields of Research : | 09 Engineering > 0907 Environmental Engineering > 090702 Environmental Engineering Modelling 09 Engineering > 0913 Mechanical Engineering > 091307 Numerical Modelling and Mechanical Characterisation |
| Identification Number or DOI: | 10.1016/S0307-904X(01)00008-7 |
| URI: | http://eprints.usq.edu.au/id/eprint/2838 |
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