Damping of short gravity-capillary waves due to oil derivatives film on the water surface

Irina Sergievskaya; Stanislav Ermakov; Tatyana Lazareva

doi:10.1117/12.2241811

19 October 2016 Damping of short gravity-capillary waves due to oil derivatives film on the water surface

Irina Sergievskaya, Stanislav Ermakov, Tatyana Lazareva

Proceedings Volume 9999, Remote Sensing of the Ocean, Sea Ice, Coastal Waters, and Large Water Regions 2016; 999903 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2241811
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

In this paper new results of laboratory studies of damping of gravity-capillary waves on the water surface covered by kerosene are presented and compared with our previous analysis of characteristics of crude oil and diesel fuel films. Investigations of kerosene films were carried out in a wide range values of film thicknesses (from some hundreds millimetres to a few millimetres) and in a wide range of surface wave frequencies (from 10 to 27 Hz). The selected frequency range corresponds to the operating wavelengths of microwave, Х- to Ka-band radars typically used for the ocean remote sensing. The studied range of film thickness covers typical thicknesses of routine spills in the ocean. It is obtained that characteristics of waves, measured in the presence of oil derivatives films differ from those for crude oil films, in particular, because the volume viscosity of oil derivatives and crude oil is strongly different. To retrieve parameters of kerosene films from the experimental data the surface wave damping was analyzed theoretically in the frame of a model of two-layer fluid. The films are assumed to be soluble, so the elasticity on the upper and lower boundaries is considered as a function of wave frequency. Physical parameters of oil derivative films were estimated when tuning the film parameters to fit theory and experiment. Comparison between wave damping due to crude oil, kerosene and diesel fuel films have shown some capabilities of distinguishing of oil films from remote sensing of short surface waves.

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Irina Sergievskaya, Stanislav Ermakov, and Tatyana Lazareva "Damping of short gravity-capillary waves due to oil derivatives film on the water surface", Proc. SPIE 9999, Remote Sensing of the Ocean, Sea Ice, Coastal Waters, and Large Water Regions 2016, 999903 (19 October 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2241811

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