Laboratory investigation of single floating booms A and series of booms in the prevention of oil slick and jellyfish movement

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 519-531

  Lo, Jen Men ^a  

^a KUWAIT INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUDE PETROLEUM; MARINE POLLUTION; OCEAN CURRENTS; OIL SPILLS; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER WAVES; WIND;

AIR BUBBLE PLUME; FLOATING BOOMS; JELLYFISH MOVEMENT; OIL SLICK MOVEMENT; WATER INTAKES;

OIL BOOMS;

BOOMS-FLOATING; OIL SPILLS;

COASTAL ENGINEERING; DANGEROUS ORGANISMS; FLOATING BARRIERS; JELLYFISH MOVEMENT; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; OIL SLICKS;

KUWAIT;

EID: 0030221499     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0029-8018(95)00064-X     Document Type: Article

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