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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
S. A. Murawski et al. (eds.), Deep Oil Spills,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11605-7_5
Chapter 5
Behavior of Rising Droplets and Bubbles:
Impact on the Physics of Deep-Sea
Blowouts and Oil Fate
Simeon Pesch, Michael Schlüter, Zachary M. Aman, Karen Malone,
Dieter Krause, and Claire B. Paris
Abstract The rise behavior of oil droplets and natural gas bubbles is of major
importance for understanding the physical behavior of dispersed oil in the aftermath
of a deep-sea blowout. It is also indispensable for the development and adjustment
of oil fate modeling tools that estimate the subsea distribution of oil masses. So far,
to estimate the oil distribution throughout the water column and the expected surfacing times, a couple of well-known correlations for the calculation of the rise
velocities of single particles with fluidic interfaces in stagnant media are available
from process engineering applications. Besides the physical properties of live oil
under environmental conditions, the size of the gas bubbles and oil droplets are the
most crucial parameters that determine rise velocities.
Keywords Rise velocity · Initial shape deformation · Live oil droplets · Degassing
· High pressure
S. Pesch (*) · M. Schlüter
Hamburg University of Technology, Institute of Multiphase Flows, Hamburg, Germany
e-mail: simeon.pesch@tuhh.de; michael.schlueter@tuhh.de
Z. M. Aman
University of Western Australia, Department of Chemical Engineering, Perth, WA, Australia
e-mail: zachary.aman@uwa.edu.au
K. Malone · D. Krause
Hamburg University of Technology, Institute of Product Development and Mechanical
Engineering Design, Hamburg, Germany
e-mail: karen.malone@tuhh.de; krause@tuhh.de
C. B. Paris
University of Miami, Department of Ocean Sciences, Rosenstiel School of Marine &
Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, USA
e-mail: cparis@rsmas.miami.edu
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
S. A. Murawski et al. (eds.), Deep Oil Spills,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11605-7_5
Chapter 5
Behavior of Rising Droplets and Bubbles:
Impact on the Physics of Deep-Sea
Blowouts and Oil Fate
Simeon Pesch, Michael Schlüter, Zachary M. Aman, Karen Malone,
Dieter Krause, and Claire B. Paris
Abstract The rise behavior of oil droplets and natural gas bubbles is of major
importance for understanding the physical behavior of dispersed oil in the aftermath
of a deep-sea blowout. It is also indispensable for the development and adjustment
of oil fate modeling tools that estimate the subsea distribution of oil masses. So far,
to estimate the oil distribution throughout the water column and the expected surfacing times, a couple of well-known correlations for the calculation of the rise
velocities of single particles with fluidic interfaces in stagnant media are available
from process engineering applications. Besides the physical properties of live oil
under environmental conditions, the size of the gas bubbles and oil droplets are the
most crucial parameters that determine rise velocities.
Keywords Rise velocity · Initial shape deformation · Live oil droplets · Degassing
· High pressure
S. Pesch (*) · M. Schlüter
Hamburg University of Technology, Institute of Multiphase Flows, Hamburg, Germany
e-mail: simeon.pesch@tuhh.de; michael.schlueter@tuhh.de
Z. M. Aman
University of Western Australia, Department of Chemical Engineering, Perth, WA, Australia
e-mail: zachary.aman@uwa.edu.au
K. Malone · D. Krause
Hamburg University of Technology, Institute of Product Development and Mechanical
Engineering Design, Hamburg, Germany
e-mail: karen.malone@tuhh.de; krause@tuhh.de
C. B. Paris
University of Miami, Department of Ocean Sciences, Rosenstiel School of Marine &
Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, USA
e-mail: cparis@rsmas.miami.edu