A three dimensional transport model for oil spills in coastal waters based on particle approach

a three dimensional transport model based on particle approach is developed and applied for simulating oil spills at Bohai Sea, China. In such a model, the movement of the particles as the sum of deterministic advection and random diffusion are determined by exploiting the equivalency between the Ito-Fokker-Planck equation and concentration equation. Numerical experiments are further used to demonstrate the simulations of oil spills and to visualize the trajectory of oil pollution in the coastal waters driven by the force of tidal currents of Bohai Sea, China. ©2010 IEEE