Modeling oil spill trajectory in coastal waters based on fractional Brownian motion

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1339-1346

  Guo, W J ^a   Wang, Y X ^a   Xie, M X ^b   Cui, Y J ^c  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c China Tianchen Engineering Corporation   (China)

Author keywords

Fractional Brownian motion; Non Fickian diffusion; Oil spill; Particle tracking; Spill trajectory

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOTION; COASTAL REGIONS; COASTAL WATERS; DIFFUSION MODELING; DIFFUSION PROCESS; DISCRETE METHOD; FRACTAL STRUCTURES; FRACTIONAL BROWNIAN MOTION; NON-FICKIAN DIFFUSION; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OBSERVED DATA; OCEAN SURFACES; OIL SLICKS; OIL SPILL TRAJECTORY; PARTICLE TRACKING; SPILL TRAJECTORY; SUPERDIFFUSIVE TRANSPORT; TURBULENT DIFFUSION;

COASTAL ZONES; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OIL SPILLS; PARTICLE BEAM TRACKING; SURFACE STRUCTURE; TRAJECTORIES;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT;

BROWNIAN MOTION; COASTAL WATER; DIFFUSION; MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OIL SPILL;

ACCIDENT; ADVECTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OIL SPILL; PREDICTION; SEA; SIMULATION; TURBULENT FLOW; WATER FLOW;

KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PETROLEUM; SEAWATER; WATER MOVEMENTS; WIND;

EID: 68949162229     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2009.04.026     Document Type: Article

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