Evolution of the Macondo well blowout: Simulating the effects of the circulation and synthetic dispersants on the subsea oil transport

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 13293-13302

  Paris, Claire B ^a   Hénaff, Matthieu Le ^a   Aman, Zachary M ^b   Subramaniam, Ajit ^c   Helgers, Judith ^a,d   Wang, Dong Ping ^e   Kourafalou, Vassiliki H ^a   Srinivasan, Ashwanth ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^c International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^e STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DISPERSION; DEEPWATER; DISPERSANTS; FAR-FIELD; GULF OF MEXICO; HYDROCARBON FRACTION; HYDRODYNAMIC PROCESS; INTRUSION DEPTHS; MULTIPLE LAYERS; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OIL DROPLETS; OIL MASS; OIL TRANSPORT; PARTICULAR CONDITION; PLAUSIBLE MODEL; POTENTIAL EFFECTS; RAPID SURFACING; RISE VELOCITY; SUBSEA OIL; VERTICAL CURRENT; WATER COLUMNS;

BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRUDE OIL; EMULSIFICATION; EXPERIMENTS; HYDROCARBONS; HYDRODYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; WELLHEADS;

BLOWOUTS;

DISPERSANT; HYDROCARBON; OIL; WELL WATER;

BLOWOUT; COASTAL PROTECTION; CRUDE OIL; DEEP WATER; DISPERSANT; HYDRODYNAMICS; MITIGATION; OIL POLLUTION; OIL SEEP; PARTICLE SIZE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SEEPAGE; STOCHASTICITY; TOPOGRAPHY; TRACKING; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENT; WATER COLUMN;

ARTICLE; DISPERSION; EMULSION; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMMERSION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PARTICLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; VELOCITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; OIL AND GAS FIELDS; PARTICLE SIZE; PETROLEUM POLLUTION; SEAWATER; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; TIME FACTORS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 84871301680     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es303197h     Document Type: Article

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