Observations of Vorticity and Turbulent Properties in a Tidal Channel

Abstract

Our goal is to contribute to a better understanding of basic processes in shallow water and coastal flows, in order to provide better, more physically based parameterizations for coastal models. We seek to understand how high Reynolds number coastal flows interact with boundaries producing tangential stress, dissipation, mixing and secondary circulation. In the future, we intend to compare the field observations with direct numerical simulations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1997
Accession Number
ADA627518

Entities

People

  • Thomas B. Sanford

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Detectors
  • Dissipation
  • Electrical Conductivity
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Flow
  • Instrumentation
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Layers
  • Measurement
  • Navigation
  • Observation
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Shallow Water
  • Turbulent Flow
  • Water Flow

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers