Oil-Spill Simulation Using Bi-Layer Shallow Water equations

Abstract

We describe a novel algorithm to simulate oils spills on open oceans, as a two-layer fluid simulation with the Shallow Water Equation (SWE). Our algorithm simulates spreading and advection, as the main driving forces of oil spread, while also attending to emulsification and evaporation, as secondary driving forces. We provide a solver using the two step Lax-Wendroff method, that allows the algorithm to run efficiently and in parallel on the GPU.