Extensive oil drilling and transportation activities increase the possibility of oil spills and the consequent threat of oil pollution to the regional environment. Oil spills are hazards for marine and freshwater environments. Oil spill/slick detection, monitoring and management has received considerable attention over the past few years.
It is a highly non-linear problem to predict oil slick movement and spreading, and it is a subject of complicated science. Oil spill behavior become more complicated while involving the effects of winds, surface currents, oil evaporation, shoreline deposition, land boundary, vertical dispersion and underwater current. Cellular Automata is a solution for problems of complicated science.
A three-dimensional model for the prediction of oil slick movement and spreading using Cellular Automata is presented in this paper. The effects of winds, surface currents, oil evaporation, shoreline deposition, land boundary and vertical dispersion have been taken into account while processing the surface cells. At the same time, the effects of underwater currents and land boundary have been taken into account while processing the underwater cells.
The algorithm has been used to simulate hypothetical oil slick movement and spreading in hypothetical geographic regions. The results of the simulation are qualitative agreed with real oil slick movement and spreading.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0726105-015825 |
| Date | 26 July 2005 |
| Creators | Sung, Hung-chun |
| Contributors | none, none, none, none, none |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0726105-015825 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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