@inproceedings{5eec694e06894082acfce110c5455599,
title = "An HPC framework for large scale simulations and visualizations of oil spill trajectories",
abstract = "The objective of this work is to build a high performance computing framework for simulating, analyzing and visualizing oil spill trajectories driven by winds and ocean currents. We adopt a particle model for oil and track the trajectories of oil particles using 2D surface currents and winds, which can either be measured directly or estimated with sophisticated coastal storm and ocean circulation models. Our work is built upon the Cactus computational framework. The numerical implementation of the particle model as well as the model coupling modules will become crucial parts of our upcoming full 3D oil spill modeling toolkit. Employing high performance computing and networking, the simulation time can be greatly reduced. Given timely injection of the measurement data, our work can be helpful to predict oil trajectories and facilitate oil clean up, especially after a tropical cyclone.",
keywords = "Cactus, Coastal hazard, Cyberinfrastructure, HPC, Oil spill",
author = "Jian Tao and Werner Benger and Kelin Hu and Edwin Mathews and Marcel Ritter and Peter Diener and Carola Kaiser and Haihong Zhao and Gabrielle Allen and Qin Chen",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1061/9780784412664.002",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9780784412664",
series = "Coastal Hazards - Selected Papers from EMI 2010",
publisher = "American Society of Civil Engineers",
number = "2",
pages = "13--23",
booktitle = "Coastal Hazards - Selected Papers from EMI 2010",
edition = "2",
note = "Coastal Hazards ; Conference date: 08-08-2010 Through 11-08-2010",
}