A numerical study on the wind effect on the oil containment by boom

We numerically investigate the effect of wind on the oil containment by boom. The numerical simulations are carried out by using commercial computational fluid dynamics software, FLUENT with Volume of Fluid method. A boom containment of high viscosity oil in real scale is simulated, where the lengths of boom and simulated domain size are practical. It is found that the effect of wind becomes significant above the threshold velocity of 10 m/s. At wind velocity of 35 m/s, the leakage rate is twice larger than the leakage rate at 0 m/s.