Abstract
Oil spill models typically compute advection of an oil spill on the sea surface as a simple vectorial weighted sum of the wind velocity and the depth-averaged current velocity due to forces other than wind. Appropriate values for the weights needed to estimate wind-induced surface oil spill speed and the associated deflection angle suitable for the Arabian Gulf were computed. The estimates were based on the results of a series of drifting buoy experiments carried out in the Arabian Gulf during 1983-1984. Two approaches for estimating the deflection angle were proposed: the first assumed the angle to be constant, whereas the second assumed the angle to vary with wind.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 461-465 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Ocean Engineering |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 1994 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Acknowledgements--We thank the KFUPM Research Institute and the Saudi Arabian Oil Company for support of this research effort under King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Research Institute Contract No. 24131, and the Saudi Arabian Oil Company and the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources for their authorization to publish this paper. The author is grateful to M. Hossain, N. Gunay and R. Khan for providing help with the computations and graphics.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Environmental Engineering
- Ocean Engineering
