Abstract
This chapter (i) documents scantily available data on the 2010 Gulf of Mexico (GoM) deepwater horizon (DWH) oil spill and the sources of such data; (ii) identifies the various mechanisms for transport and physicochemical change of the oil-gas mixture as it interacts with the seawater; (iii) summarizes the mechanistic models available in the literature for each individual process; (iv) identifies the knowledge gaps; and (v) presents a framework towards a global, integrated computational transport phenomena model that could be used in future spills to predict possible scenarios. A variety of alternate formulations namely, the mixture-Eulerian (M-E) framework, the Eulerian-Lagrangian (E-L) framework, and the Eulerian-Eulerian (E-E), are available for studying multiphase transport processes that permit coupling between various mechanisms. The chapter presents sample model results for controlled experiments that were performed with a mixture of oil and gas plume with uniform ambient cross flow along the height.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Oil Spill Remediation |
| Subtitle of host publication | Colloid Chemistry-Based Principles and Solutions |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Pages | 89-126 |
| Number of pages | 38 |
| Volume | 9781118206706 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781118825662 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781118206706 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 28 Apr 2014 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Deepwater horizon (DWH) oil spill
- Eulerian-Eulerian (E-E) framework
- Eulerian-Lagrangian (E-L) framework
- Gulf of Mexico (GoM)
- Mixture-Eulerian (M-E) framework
- Multiphase flow models