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City Cambridge / / Company Thorpe S.A. / IT MATTERS / Fluid Mechanics Laboratory / / Country Canada / / Event Man-Made Disaster / Environmental Issue / / IndustryTerm oil element locations / oil spreading / oil slick / buoyant spilled oil / oil viscosity / separate oil / thick oil / termination algorithms / oil spill model / heavy fuel oil / recoverable oil / oil transport module / oil spills / oil flows / spilled oil / light refined product / surface oil / oil volume contamination / oil spreading models / pure chemicals / oil-to-water viscosity ratio / oil / oil slicks / actual oil spills / / NaturalFeature North Sea / / OperatingSystem ADIOS / / Organization MIT / / Person Env / Fay Early / D. Li / / Position ADIOS oil spill model / Farmer / / ProvinceOrState Pennsylvania / Massachusetts / / Technology Elliot-style algorithm / spreading termination algorithms / simulation / /
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Oil is not only transported by winds and currents, but also spreads as a film of varying thickness on the surface of the water. Current models estimate spread inaccurately. The reasons for this are two-fold. One, the sp