The exploration of the spatial distribution of chemical abundances in star-forming regions in galactic discs provides clues to understand the complex interplay of physical processes that regulate the star formation activity and the chemical enrichment across a galaxy .
We study the azimuthal variations of the normalised oxygen abundance profiles in the highest numerical resolution run of the EAGLE project at z = 0 .
We use young stellar populations to trace the abundances of star-forming regions .
Oxygen profiles are estimated along different line-of-sights from a centred-located observer .
The mean azimuthal variation in the EAGLE discs are \sim 0.12 \pm 0.03 dex R _ { eff } ^ { -1 } for slopes and \sim 0.12 \pm 0.03 dex for the zero points , in global agreement with previous works .
Metallicity gradients measured along random directions correlate with those determine by averaging over the whole discs although with a large dispersion .
We find a slight trend for higher azimuthal variations in the disc components of low star-forming and bulge-dominated galaxies .
We also investigate the metallicity profiles of stellar populations with higher and lower levels of enrichment than the average metallicity profiles , finding a trend for high star-forming region with high metallicity to have slightly shallower metallicity slopes compared to the overall metallicity gradient .
The simulated azimuthal variations in the EAGLE discs are in global agreement with observations , however the large variety of metallicity gradients suggests the further exploration of the metal mixing .