Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/11147/4503
Title: Oil mound spreading and migration with ambient groundwater flow in coarse porous media
Authors: Çorapçıoplu, M. Yavuz
Tuncay, Kağan
Ceylan, B. Kağan
Keywords: Aquifers
Contamination
Fluid flow
Porous media
Groundwater
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
Source: Çorapçıoplu, M. Y., Tuncay, K., and Ceylan, B. K. (1996). Oil mound spreading and migration with ambient ground flow in coarse porous media. Water Resources Research, 32(5), 1299-1308. doi:10.1029/95WR03825
Abstract: When a light, immiscible oil leaks above an unconfined aquifer, it spreads and forms a floating mound on the table. The oil mound migrates in the direction of ambient ground flow. In this study we present a governing equation for the migrating mound thickness by averaging the oil phase mass balance equation. Analytical and numerical solutions to an advective- dispersive type equation are presented to estimate the temporal and spatial distribution of the migrating oil mound thickness for two problems of practical importance: formation, spreading, and migration of an oil mound on the table and spreading and migration of an established layer of oil with ambient ground flow. The model results compare favorably with test data obtained by laboratory flume experiments. Although the model has some simplifying assumptions such as the absence of capillary pressure gradients, sharp saturation changes across the phase interfaces, and single mobile phase (i.e., oil flow only), it can be useful as a screening or site assessment tool because of its relative simplicity.
URI: http://doi.org/10.1029/95WR03825
http://hdl.handle.net/11147/4503
ISSN: 1944-7973
0043-1397
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