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3D Fluid Dynamics Model to Simulate Oil slick movement in coastal waters or rivers

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FLOOIL 3D Fluid Dynamics model to Simulate Flow and Oil transport in water bodies like river, estuaries and coastal area.

It uses Computational Fluid Dynamics tools in a finite difference based approach to solve the differential equations governing mass, momentum and energy transfer.

Finite Difference scheme has been used to compute the mass fluxes and oil spill transport. The effects due to wind at the surface and bed roughness at the bottom have been taken into account.

FLOOIL has built-in models to account for density variation due to Oil Spill and BFC Grid Generation technique to take into account the curved flow boundaries.

INTRODUCTION :

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FLOOIL can be used for simulating oil slick movement by considering the transportation of an oil slick due to advection spreading-evaporation and dissolution.

FLOOIL can also consider the lateral flows and Oil discharges joining the flow domain at any location. The model can also be used for varying boundary values over the time at user specified locations.

FLOOIL has special features to analyze time dependent velocity fields, Oil spill movement and water levels at user specified location.

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MODELING FEATURES

Automatic BFC grid generation

Implicit higher order finite difference scheme

Oil discharge into main river reach at any location

Boundary condition at user specified locations

Time varying boundary condition

Lagrangian model for oil slic removal: including effect of wind, dissolution, evaporation, emulsification

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Pre-processor : Digitization of domain, terrain, objects and meteorological stations by

loading the BMP map.

Save / Load terrain, meteorological, Oil sources and result files both in

ASCII and BINARY format.

Update the Oil database through menu.

  Load meshes in different formats load objects in Auto CAD DXF format

    Interactive selection of models.

Loading either data in NWS format and in user-defined format.

Interactive specification of boundary conditions.

Manual control over simulation options.

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Post-processor :

( Viewing the Terrain with object masking facility )

Grid plots, Vector plots.

Contour plot / Surface plots : line and filled.

Plots of variables with distance on a plane.

Trace plots of variables at monitor points.

The values of a variable at any grid points.

Applications : Navigational purpose. River maintenance works. Oil-slick transport.

 

Purpose of the software in the field of the following areas : Coastal region. Seas, rivers and estuaries. Petro-chemical industries.

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User Interface :

Menu Driven

User – Friendly

Easy to Use

Online Help

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GRAPHICAL MENU INTERFACE

Load or Save Files in ASCII / BINARY Format

File Operations

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Terrain Features

Topography

Options

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Fluid Properties

Flow

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Oil Characteristics

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Spill Process

Spill Mechanism

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Shore Type

Nature of River bund

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Simulation

Output Options

Flow parameters ( Velocities in X, Y, and Z directions) at start of Simulation.

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Landscape

View

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Velocity Vectors

View

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Contours filled mode

View

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Contours line mode

View

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Grid ( 1D, 2D or 3D)

View

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Grid out ( Outer boundary of mesh )

View

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Graphs

View

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INPUT DATA REQUIRED

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Topography of Water body.

Fluid Properties.

Flow Boundary Conditions .

Chemical and Physical Characteristic of Oil Spill.

Type of the Oil Source ( point, line, area or volume).

Shore Type (like sand and Grave, Rock Shore ) .

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OUTPUT

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Generated Grid and Bathymetry.

Velocity vectors throughout the domain .

Contours (lined and filled) .

Water level variation and Velocities .

Contours of Oil Slick throughout the Domain.

Graphical representation velocities, water levels and oil slick.

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Oil Slick in River Thamesnear Coryton

Case Study

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Introduction:

The main objective of the study is to analyze the fate of a large quantity of Crude oil spillage into the River Thames

The Oil spill is due to the shipwreck of an Oil Tanker

The location of the spillage is near Coryton The flow in River Thames varies with the tidal cycle

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Map of the region around the Spillage Site along the River Thames (from Canvey Island to Tilbury)

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Digitization of the Topographical/Hydrological features on the Map

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Topographic/Hydrographic details:

The maximum bathymetric depth in the river stretch considered for this study is 14.8 m

The bathymetry is assumed to be sandy with a D50 of 1.5 mm

The Manning’s Roughness coefficient is assumed as 0.1

Unsteady flow boundary Conditions, varying with tidal cycles, are used here.

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Bathymetry Generated by FLOOIL (Using bathymetric contours)

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Spill Details:

Spilled Liquid : Crude Oil Amount of Spill : 1000 tons Spill Location : Near Coryton Oil Density : 900 Kg/m3 (at 150 C) Kinematic Viscosity of Oil : 0.00134 m2/s Surface Tension : 30 dynes/m Ambient Air Temperature : 130 C Dissolution Constant : 0.0088 (g.m2.hr)-1

Decay constant : 0.5 d-1

The source of spillage is assumed as an underwater pipeline of size 18 inches, carrying Crude oil .

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Location of Oil Slick

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Simulation Parameters:

Computational Grid : 3-D Mesh of size 72 X 10 X 3

Duration of the Study : 3 days (72 hours)

Flow Boundary Conditions : The boundary conditions were taken between Tilbury and Coryton (the

flow variations due to the tidal cycles were taken into consideration)

Removal Mechanisms Considered : All (Advection, Diffusion, Mechanical Spread,

Dissolution, Evaporation, Shore Deposition and Emulsification)

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2-D View of the Computational Grid

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3-D View of Computational Grid

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Flow Velocity Vectors after 2 hrs of Simulation

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Flow Velocity Vectors after 4 hrs of Simulation

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Flow Velocity Vectors after 6 hrs of Simulation

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Flow Velocity Vectors after 8 hrs of Simulation

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Oil Volume (in m3) after 2 hrs of Simulation

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Oil Volume (in m3) after 4 hrs of Simulation

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Oil Volume (in m3) after 6 hrs of Simulation

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Oil Volume (in m3) after 8 hrs of Simulation

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