Several oil spill simulation models exist in the literature, which are used worldwide to
simulate the evolution of an oil slick created from marine traffic, petroleum production, or …

Growing concerns over the risk of accidental releases of oil into the marine environment
have emphasized our need to improve both oil spill preparedness and response strategies …

Oil spill modeling is fundamental for planning and preparing for, as well as responding to
and mitigating, actual spill events. As a result, significant research effort has been directed …

Although anthropogenic oil spills vary in size, duration and severity, their broad impacts on
complex social, economic and ecological systems can be significant. Questions pertaining to …

Oil spills may have devastating effects on marine ecosystems, public health, the economy,
and coastal communities. As a consequence, scientific literature contains various up-to-date …

The Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Energy Technology Laboratory's (NETL's)
Blowout and Spill Occurrence Model (BLOSOM), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric …

2. Background The tourism industry is a critical economic engine in the United States (US).
Tourism has a combined value greater than the US agricultural industry, US airline industry …

This work proposes a procedure for the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation of
an oil spill at a large domain. The use of CFD in a large domain usually has restrictions due …

The evaluation of oil spills and their coastal impacts remains a fundamental scientific
challenge. This includes the prediction and subsequent evaluation of environmental …

Following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010, a substantial body of research has
focused on the development of computational tools and analytical frameworks for modeling …