A Coupled Model for Simulating the Dispersion of Produced Water in the Marine Environment

Abstract

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.