In the last fifty years thousands of oil spill accidents have occured worldwide resulting in oil polution that threatens the marine enviroment.

The fate of spilled oil can be affected by nine physical, chemical and biological processes (weathering processes):

  • advection
  • spreading
  • evaporation
  • emulsification
  • dispersion
  • dissolution
  • oxidation
  • biodegradation
  • sedimentation/sinking

SpillSolver is an application developed in order to provide reliable results regarding the behavior of oil once it is spilled in the sea.