Computer modeling of oil spill trajectories with a high accuracy method

Spill Science and Technology Bulletin

Volumn 5, Issue 5-6, 1999, Pages 323-330

  García Martínez, Reinaldo ^a   Flores Tovar, Henry ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Lagrangian models; Numerical dispersion; Oil spills; Particle tracking

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER MODELING; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; OIL SPILL; PARTICLE TRAJECTORY;

LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; OIL SPILL; PARTICLE MOTION;

EID: 0343192506     PISSN: 13532561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1353-2561(99)00077-8     Document Type: Article

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