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Governing physics of shallow and deep subsea gas release

Abstract

A modelling concept for studying the resulting bubble plume from a subsea gas release is presented. Simulation results show good consistency with available experimental data. The modelling concept is applied to assess the importance of different physics and mechanisms assumed to influence the behaviour of the bubble plume. It is shown that buoyancy, drag, turbulent dispersion and gas dissolution are the governing mechanisms, and that gas dissolution is important for deep releases.
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Category

Academic chapter

Language

English

Affiliation

  • SINTEF Industry / Process Technology

Year

2015

Publisher

SINTEF akademisk forlag

Book

Progress in Applied CFD : Selected papers from 10th International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Oil & Gas, Metallurgical and Process Industries

ISBN

9788253614335

Page(s)

217 - 222

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