Advectiondiffusion settling of deep-sea mining sediment plumes. Part 2. Collector plumes

R Ouillon, C Muñoz-Royo, MH Alford, T Peacock - Flow, 2022 - cambridge.org
… and investigate an advectiondiffusion-settling model of deep-sea mining collector plumes,
… In the following we show that the balance between vertical diffusion and settling plays a …

Advection-diffusion-settling of deep-sea mining sediment plumes. Part 1: Midwater plumes

R Ouillon, C Muñoz-Royo, MH Alford, T Peacock - Flow, 2022 - cambridge.org
… The evolution of midwater sediment plumes associated with deep-sea mining activities is …
focus of Part 2, which focuses on the seabed plume produced by DSM collector vehicles. …

The fluid mechanics of deep-sea mining

T Peacock, R Ouillon - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
… geophysical setting for deep-sea mining sediment plumes … of the sediment plume for the
case of a single nodule collector … the advection, diffusion, and settling of polydisperse plumes in …

Numerical simulation and analysis of initial plume discharge of deep-sea mining

T Bai, Y Zhao, Y Zhou, K Huang - Ocean Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
… During the collection process, sediment disturbance is … Smaller particle sizes lead to very
low settling velocities, and … We defined the diffusion range of the plume based on a 0.2% …

A numerical investigation of the dynamic interaction between the deep-sea mining vehicle and sediment plumes based on a small-scale analysis

S Liu, J Yang, H Lu, P Sun, B Zhang - Journal of Marine Science and …, 2023 - mdpi.com
… The first stage is the collection phase of deep-sea mining vehicle (DSMV) … In Section 2, based
on the physical and mechanical … of sediment in the plume: the initial setting of the sediment

A modified drag coefficient model for calculating the terminal settling velocity and horizontal diffusion distance of irregular plume particles in deep-sea mining

Z Liu, Q Rao, W Yi, W Huang - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2024 - Springer
… During the deep-sea mining process, a number of disturbed sediment particles and
raised mineral particles by the collector (Miller et al. 2018; Muñoz-Royo et al. 2021) (would …

Sediment plume generation by deep-sea mining vehicles: A discrete phase model based on investigation of the effect of relative dimensions

S Liu, J Yang, H Lu, P Sun, B Zhang - ISOPE International Ocean and …, 2024 - onepetro.org
… The collector plume, known as a sediment plume, is … as the source term in the
advection-diffusion equation, and the … In Section 2, the numerical model is established based on …

Numerical modeling of sediment transport caused by deep-sea mining

W Zielke, JA Jankowski, J Sündermann… - ISOPE Ocean Mining …, 1995 - onepetro.org
… In the application to deep-sea mining, the particles have a settling … The second term in (2)
represents advection and the third … for a sediment plume discharged by a single collector for 24 …

A numerical investigation of the effects of deep-sea mining vehicles on the evolution of sediment plumes based on the combination of near-and far-field models

S Liu, J Yang, H Lyu, P Sun, B Zhang - Applied Ocean Research, 2024 - Elsevier
… stir up sediments around the collectors and release dense … plume transport and deposition,
such as particle settling velocity, … In Section 2, the process of this research method and …

Extent of impact of deep-sea nodule mining midwater plumes is influenced by sediment loading, turbulence and thresholds

C Muñoz-Royo, T Peacock, MH Alford… - … Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
… , settling, and turbulent diffusion of sediment. The … focused on the sediment plume from a
collector vehicle on the … in the vicinity of deep-sea mining midwater plumes 39 was not observed…