(Ebook) Oil Spill Risk Management Modeling Gulf of Mexico Circulation and Oil Dispersal 1st edition by David Dietrich, Malcolm Bowman, Konstantin Korotenko, Hamish Bowman 1118290380 9781118290385

(Ebook) Oil Spill Risk Management Modeling Gulf of Mexico Circulation and Oil Dispersal 1st edition by David Dietrich, Malcolm Bowman, Konstantin Korotenko, Hamish Bowman 1118290380 9781118290385

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ISBN-10 :  1118290380 

ISBN-13 :  9781118290385

Author: David E. Dietrich, Malcolm J. Bowman, Konstantin A. Korotenko, M. Hamish E. Bowman 

This book is designed to help scientifically astute non-specialists understand basic geophysical and computational fluid dynamics concepts relating to oil spill simulations, and related modeling issues and challenges.  A valuable asset to the engineer or manager working off-shore in the oil and gas industry, the authors, a team of renowned geologists and engineers, offer practical applications to mitigate any offshore spill risks, using research never before published.

Oil Spill Risk Management: Modeling Gulf of Mexico Circulation and Oil Dispersal 1st table of contents:

Part I: Applied Oil Spill Modeling (with applications to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill)
Chapter 1: The 2010 Deep Water Horizon and 2002 Supertanker Prestige Accidents
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Oil Spills Described
1.3 How Much Material Remains in the Gulf?
1.4 The Role of Ocean Models to Explain what Happened
References
Chapter 2: Gulf of Mexico Circulation
2.1 General Characteristics
2.2 Exchanges at Lateral and Surface Boundaries
2.3 Loop Current Eddies
2.4 Blocking by the Pycnocline
2.5 Fate of the Deepwater Horizon Well Blowout Material
2.6 Summary
References
Chapter 3: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics and Modeling Challenges
3.1 Modeling the Circulation and Mixing of the Gulf Waters
3.2 External Boundaries
3.3 Addressing the Water Column Contamination and Fluxes
3.4 Effects of Bottom Dynamics on Accumulated Hydrocarbons
3.5 Churning by Extreme Weather Events
3.6 Summary
References
Chapter 4: Flow and Oil Transport Model Choices, Setup and Testing
4.1 The DieCAST Ocean Circulation Model
4.2 Korotenko Oil Transport Module KOTM
4.3 Gulf Modeling Approach
4.4 Model Vertical Eddy Viscosity and Diffusivity
4.5 Surface Wind Driving and Open Boundary Conditions
4.6 Comments on Modeling Equatorial Dynamics and the Gulf of Mexico
4.7 Modeling Multi-Century Gulf Currents
References
Chapter 5: Modeling the 2010 DWH Oil Spill
5.1 Introduction: the BP/Deepwater Horizon Accident
5.2 Deepwater Blowouts: Processes Affecting the Transport and Fate of Oil throughout the Water Column
5.3 Oil Spill Model for Gulf of Mexico (GOSM)
5.4 Results and Discussion
5.5 Summary
References
Part 2: Special Topics in Oil Spill Modeling
Chapter 6: DieCAST Model Origin and Development
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Recent Model Attributes
6.3 Challenges in Modeling the Gulf of Mexico Circulation
6.4 Complications of Modeling near-Equatorial Circulation
6.5 Non Hydrostatic Effects
6.6 Sponge Layers in the Global Model
6.7 Inflow Considerations
References
Chapter 7: Brief History of the Community Ocean Modeling System (COMS)
7.1 COMS history
7.2 Background and motivations
7.3 COMS elliptic solver history
7.4 Evolution of DieCAST
7.5 Outlook
References
Chapter 8: DieCAST Model Equations1
8.1 Model Equations
8.2 Model Layer Depths
References
Chapter 9: Some Basic Physical, Mathematical and Modeling Concepts
9.1 Buoyancy, Density and the Hydrostatic Approximation
9.2 Pycnocline Slope: Geopotential Surface as a Natural Vertical Coordinate
9.3 Rotation and Coriolis Terms
9.4 Pycnocline and the Florida Strait Sill Depth
9.5 Surface and Bottom Mixed Layers
References
Chapter 10: Modeling Challenges, Validations and Animations
10.1 Incompressibility, Geostrophy, Data Assimilation and Initialization Issues
10.2 Thermocline Maintenance, Ventilation and Extreme Events
10.3. Nesting, Grid Coupling and Open Boundary Conditions
10.4. Validation of Simulated Major Current Patterns in the Gulf
10.5 Note on Data Assimilation
10.6 Gulf Circulation Animations
10.7 Animation 1 16
10.8 Animation 2 18
10.9 Animation 3 19
References
Chapter 11: A Five-Century Gulf Simulation using DieCAST
11.1 Motivation
11.2 Basic Flow Patterns
11.3 Some Results Observed during the 5th Century
11.4 Internal Waves
11.5 Island/Headland Wake Effects in the Yucatan Channel
11.6 Deeply Suspended and Bottom Deposited Material
References
Chapter 12: Extreme Events and Oil Rig Stability
12.1 Introduction
12.2 An Unusual Northern Gulf Eddy Event
12.3 Detailed Discussion of Run A
12.4 Some Comments
12.5 Other Extreme Events Found during the 500-year simulation
References
Chapter 13: Initialization and Data Assimilation; MAM Procedure
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Preliminary Comment
13.3 MAM Procedure
13.4 Refinements, Variations, Generalizations and Specializations of the MAM Approach
References
Chapter 14: On the Simulation of Density Currents by z-level Models
14.1 Motivation
14.2 Introduction
14.3 Analysis
14.4 Summary and Conclusion
14.5 Acknowledgements
References

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