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Ocean spills | VisualPDE (visualpde.com)

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On 10 January 1992, during a storm, a container full of bath toys fell off a ship travelling across the Pacific ocean. The container opened and the 28,000 toys, including yellow rubber ducks, were released.

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We’ll model the ducks as ‘tracer particles’ in the ocean. The term ‘tracer particles’ refers to small objects that move with a fluid without really changing how it behaves. They are very common: examples include leaves on the surface of a river and, fortunately, rubber ducks in the ocean. Our simulations will try to track the amount of these particles in different parts of the ocean.

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