Characterizing Surface Transport Barriers in the South China Sea

Abstract

The long term goal of this project is to advance the state of the art in mathematical methods for detecting key Lagrangian transport structures in velocity field data sets for spatially complex, time- dependent, ocean surface flows. Such transport structures are typically not inherently obvious in snapshots of the Eulerian velocity field and require analysis methods with foundations in Lagrangian flow transport. Several such methods are currently being developed, and we seek to assess the utility of several of the leading methods.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2015
Accession Number
AD1013714

Entities

People

  • Thomas Peacock

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Clustering
  • Coral Reefs
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Sets
  • Engineering
  • Flow
  • Flow Fields
  • High Resolution
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Oceans
  • Ridges
  • South China Sea
  • Stratified Fluids
  • Surface Transportation
  • Transport Ships

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design