Author(s): Yoshitaka Matsuzaki; Shigeki Sakai
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Abstract: The full operation of crude oil and natural gas offshore the island of Sakhalin has just started. If oil spills, a coastal area along the Sea of Okhotsk in Hokkaido, Japan might suffer serious environmental damage from the spilled oil since there is a strong southward ocean current in the Sea of Okhotsk. The sea surface in this area is covered by ice in winter; therefore it would be impossible to find the spilled oil. In this study, we propose a numerical model which can treat interactions of oil slick and currents. This numerical model is able to simulate the deformation and movement of the oil slick by current in arbitrary conditions of oil properties and ice bottom configurations.
Year: 2008