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The applications of fractal have been involved in a wide range of areas. As a fractal brunch—fractional Brownian motion (fBm) has also been used and applied in numerous physical sciences. The fBm technique overcome the traditional non-memory random walk-Brownian motion, it could be used on modelling particle tracking dispersion in ocean surface. The technique gives more accurate simulation on tracking particle diffusion and dispersion. Here we use a developed fBm model (FBMINC) as a diffusion process, simulate an idealized coastal bay surface trajectories and particle cloud dispersions using fBm particle tracking techniques. Compared to the traditional Brownian motion particle tracking model, the newly developed fBm particle tracking model produces patterns more close to the reality. Due to its flexibility, the fBm particle tracking model can be widely used in pollutant dispersion on difference size of water bodies.
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Qu, B., Addison, P.S. (2016). Application of Fractal on the Fluids. In: Jia, Y., Du, J., Li, H., Zhang, W. (eds) Proceedings of the 2015 Chinese Intelligent Systems Conference. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48365-7_47
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