Numerical Simulation of the Gravity-Inertial Spreading of Oil Using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

Carlos Alberto Dutra Fraga Filho (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

189 Seiten

2024 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-0910-4 (ISBN)

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Oil spills at sea are a severe environmental concern. They can occur during the various stages of well-drilling, repair operations or transportation. The spreading of oil occurs due to the pollutant's tendency to flow over itself. Knowledge of its physical properties during the phenomenon, such as velocities and spatial positions, allows the timely adoption of environmental protection measures. This book presents, in a simple and objective way, the development and implementation of purely Lagrangian numerical modelling using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method for the study of the spreading of oil in its first stage (gravity-inertial regime) on a calm sea. The computational code's implementation and validation were carried out through the simulation of classical problems in the scientific literature, i.e., heat diffusion in a homogeneous flat plate, a still volume of water inside an immobile reservoir and a dam failure. From the coupling of the software with a collision detection and response algorithm, numerical results in concordance with the curve adjusted by James Fay (a pioneering scientist in the study of oil spills) for the prediction of oil slick diameters at the end of the gravity-inertial regime were achieved.

Carlos Alberto Dutra Fraga Filho has been a professor and researcher in mechanical and environmental engineering and computational fluid mechanics (CFD) since 2010. Currently, he is an independent researcher in environmental engineering and computational mechanics. His last affiliation was the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology, Brazil, and he has also been a post-doctoral researcher at ESS Engineering Software Steyr GmbH, Austria. The author is a reviewer of papers for Physics of Fluids, the Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Computer Applications in Engineering Education, and has published two books: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics: Fundamentals and Basic Applications in Continuum Mechanics and Análise Dinâmica de Materiais Compósitos (FGM) via Elementos Finitos: Simulação Numérica e Validação Experimental. He is also the author of several scientific papers.

Erscheinungsdatum	01.10.2024
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	1-0364-0910-4 / 1036409104
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-0910-4 / 9781036409104
Zustand	Neuware