SIMULATION OF TRANSPORT AND DEPOSITION OF SILICICLASTIC SEDIMENTS IN PLATAFORM, SLOPE, AND BASIN ENVIRONMENTS / SIMULAÇÃO DE TRANSPORTE E DEPOSIÇÃO DE SEDIMENTOS SILICICLÁSTICOS EM AMBIENTES DE PLATAFORMA, TALUDE E BACIA

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2002

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Sedimentary Geology deals with the study of the physical, chemical and biological processes operating in the surface of the Earth, not only in the present days, but also along all History. Therefore, it can be applied in miscellaneous fields, as, for example, in the study of fossils fuels formation. One of the main focus of sedimentary geology inhabits in determining the parameters and processes for which the sedimentary basins are filled. In this work the development of a numerical simulator of sedimentation 3D, called STENO is presented, with emphasises the depositary processes in platform, slope, and basin environments. The algorithm of the simulator is based on the formulated quantitative concepts for Sequence Stratigraphy, as mechanisms of primary control of the architecture of sedimentary stratus, and in a numerical analysis for simulation of the 2D steady-state flow of a incompressible fluid, not viscous, in function of the bathymetry of the region represented by one regular grid defined by the user. The velocity field calculated from boundary conditions (sediment aport velocity and for field stream velocity) it is used to determine the direction of draining of the sediments (streamlines). The algorithm of STENO is innovative because it considers that the sediments are carried hydrodynamicsly, that is, in direction x and y they are carried following streamlines and in direction z. The movement/deposition of sediments is controlled by an angle of stability of each lithology fraction (sand, silte or clay) and by the volume of the available space for accommodation in each one of the columns formed in the cells of the discretized model.

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simulacao numerica computer graphics geologia numerical simulation computacao grafica geology

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