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

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 e...

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Published in:Journal of Applied Mathematics
Main Authors: Zhixiong Chen, Yi Ding, Rusty Laracuenti, Bernard Lipat
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Journal of Applied Mathematics 2013
Subjects:
Fukushima
Nicholson
Pacific
Oncorhynchus gorbuscha
Pink salmon
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/672171
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Summary: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).

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