Author(s)

J. Antunes de Carmo & M. Costa

Abstract

A numerical model has been developed to forecast the time-space evolution of oil spills in marine environments. This model was developed firstly taking into account mathematical formulations for oil spreading and weathering processes originally generated for the Mu-Slick (Management Unit of the Mathematical Model of the North Sea and Scheldt Estuary) model. This model was then linked to a transport Lagrangean approach and another two-dimensional (2DH) hydrodynamic model. In this paper we present the validation of the complete computational structure, through the study of different spreading and weathering processes (i.e. evaporation, dissolution, dispersion into the water column, emulsification, changes in viscosity and density), and the calibration

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