Oil and gas from a subsea blowout shatter into droplets and bubbles that rise through the water column, entraining ambient seawater and forming a plume. Local density stratification and currents eventually arrest this rising plume, and the entrained water, enriched with dissolved hydrocarbons and some of the smaller oil droplets, forms one or more subsurface intrusion layers. Beyond the plume and intrusion layer(s), droplets and bubbles advect and diffuse by local currents and dissolve and biodegrade as they rise to the surface, where they are transported by wind and waves. These processes occur over a wide range of length scales that preclude simulation by any single model, but separate models of varying complexity are available to handle ...
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Enginee...
A subsea release of gas poses a risk to humans and assets at the surface. Assessing this risk requir...
To date, experimental investigations to determine the droplet size distribution (DSD) of subsea oil ...
Oil and gas from a subsea blowout shatter into droplets and bubbles that rise through the water colu...
The relative effects of hydrodynamic, thermodynamic, and geochemical factors on the fate and transpo...
During the Deepwater Horizon disaster, a substantial fraction of the 600,000-900,000 tons of release...
During the Deepwater Horizon incident, crude oil flowed into the Gulf of Mexico from 1522 m underwat...
The global demand for hydrocarbons is high and is also believed to be high in the future. Much of to...
The rise behavior of oil droplets and natural gas bubbles is of major importance for understanding t...
Field observations indicate that during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident, approximately one quart...
The size distribution of oil droplets and gas bubbles forming at the exit geometry of a deep-sea blo...
Explaining the dynamics of gas-saturated live petroleum in deep water remains a challenge. Recently,...
A two-fluid, small scale numerical ocean model was developed to simulate plume dynamics and increas...
The worlds demand for oil and gas is constantly increasing, and this has lead the exploration into d...
Growing interest in offshore geologic carbon sequestration (GCS) motivates evaluation of the consequ...
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Enginee...
A subsea release of gas poses a risk to humans and assets at the surface. Assessing this risk requir...
To date, experimental investigations to determine the droplet size distribution (DSD) of subsea oil ...
Oil and gas from a subsea blowout shatter into droplets and bubbles that rise through the water colu...
The relative effects of hydrodynamic, thermodynamic, and geochemical factors on the fate and transpo...
During the Deepwater Horizon disaster, a substantial fraction of the 600,000-900,000 tons of release...
During the Deepwater Horizon incident, crude oil flowed into the Gulf of Mexico from 1522 m underwat...
The global demand for hydrocarbons is high and is also believed to be high in the future. Much of to...
The rise behavior of oil droplets and natural gas bubbles is of major importance for understanding t...
Field observations indicate that during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident, approximately one quart...
The size distribution of oil droplets and gas bubbles forming at the exit geometry of a deep-sea blo...
Explaining the dynamics of gas-saturated live petroleum in deep water remains a challenge. Recently,...
A two-fluid, small scale numerical ocean model was developed to simulate plume dynamics and increas...
The worlds demand for oil and gas is constantly increasing, and this has lead the exploration into d...
Growing interest in offshore geologic carbon sequestration (GCS) motivates evaluation of the consequ...
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Enginee...
A subsea release of gas poses a risk to humans and assets at the surface. Assessing this risk requir...
To date, experimental investigations to determine the droplet size distribution (DSD) of subsea oil ...