Abstract
The focus of our study is to investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of using Lattice Boltzmann Advection Diffusion Equation (LBM-ADE) to model and simulate ocean oil spill transport at the surface level. We present some preliminary results from a prototype model and simulation in limited scale (a sub area of Gulf of Mexico) with assimilation of real ocean current data from the Unified Wave Interface-Coupled Model (UWIN-CM). We validate our model in a benchmark study against GNOME, a tool developed and used by NOAA for ocean oil spill forecast, under two scenarios: (i) a Gaussian hill concentration using a linear ocean current with the analytical solution as a reference; (ii) a Gaussian hill concentration using real ocean current from (UWIN-CM). Our benchmark results in both cases show the LBM-ADE model solutions are very close to the targeted analytical and GNOME solutions with the same initial oil spill and location.
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