An Evaluation of an Electromagnetic Current Meter for Study of Water Particle Motion.
Abstract
An electromagnetic current meter was laboratory and field tested in a variety of applications for coastal processes, ranging from measurement of net bottom currents (primarily tidal origin) on the Continental Shelf, to horizontal and vertical components of wave-induced orbital motion of waves with periods as small as 1 second. It senses two orthogonal components of the average instantaneous current (in a plane perpendicular to the axis of the probe) in an area approximately 4 1/2 inches in radius. Each of the two pairs of sensing plates will give an essentially undistored cosine response of flow not parallel to the plane of the plates. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1970
- Accession Number
- AD0728832
Entities
People
- George Milton Hecker
Organizations
- Old Dominion University