Errors in acoustic doppler profiler velocity measurements caused by flow disturbance

Journal of Hydraulic Engineering

Volumn 133, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1411-1420

  Mueller, David S ^a   Abad, Jorge D ^b   Garcia, Carlos M ^c   Gartner, Jeffrey W ^a   Garcia, Marcelo H ^d   Oberg, Kevin A ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^d University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic techniques; Computational fluid dynamics technique; Errors; Flow measurement; Numerical models; Velocity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW VELOCITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; STREAM FLOW;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; FLOW DISTURBANCE;

FLOW MEASUREMENT;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW VELOCITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; STREAM FLOW;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW VELOCITY; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 36448946519     PISSN: 07339429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9429(2007)133:12(1411)     Document Type: Article

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