ABSTRACT
In the unique marine environment, oil spills will eventually disappear under the influence of a series of complex physical and chemical changes and organisms. The behaviors and fates of oil spills in the ocean can be divided into three categories: Spreading process, Transport process and Weathering process. With regard to the study of the behavior and fate of oil spills in seawater, numerous scholars have put forward various theories and mathematical models through a large number of experiments, and have obtained fruitful results. When the oil spills onto the sea surface, it will spread out under the combined action of surface tension, inertia force, gravity and viscous force. In the study of oil spill spreading, the spreading range and thickness variation of the oil film has been a common concern of researchers. An important progress of the oil spill spreading model is the oil particle model proposed by O. Johansen in the 1980s.
