Modelling the Effects of Radioactive Effluent on Thunnus orientalis and Oncorhynchus gorbuscha

• Published in: Journal of Applied Mathematics
• Main Authors: Zhixiong Chen, Yi Ding, Rusty Laracuenti, Bernard Lipat
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2013
• Subjects: Mathematics; QA1-939; Oncorhynchus gorbuscha; Pink salmon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/672171; https://doaj.org/article/93d483e2338d48de805d1a198ccfec1f

The contamination of the Pacific Ocean by the radioactive pollutants released from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant has raised legitimate concerns over the viability of marine wildlife. We develop a modified Crank-Nicholson method to approximate a solution to the diffusion-advection-decay equation in time and three spatial dimensions to explore the extent of the effects of the radioactive effluent on two marine species: the Pacific Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus orientalis) and the Pacific Pink Salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha).