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This chapter describes a method for simulating the dispersion of produced water in the marine environment. A near field model, PROMISE, has been coupled with the MIKE3 model using the passive offline coupling method. A hypothetical case study has been conducted to evaluate the method and it has been shown that model coupling is critical in accurately simulating the dispersion. A minimum grid size must be maintained in the far field model to introduce the source term from the near field model correctly.
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Financial support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and Petroleum Research Atlantic Canada through a Collaborative Research and Development grant (NSERC/PRAC CRD) and the Panel for Energy Research and Development (PERD) is gratefully acknowledged.
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Niu, H., Lee, K., Husain, T., Veitch, B., Bose, N. (2011). A Coupled Model for Simulating the Dispersion of Produced Water in the Marine Environment. In: Lee, K., Neff, J. (eds) Produced Water. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0046-2_12
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