Investigation of two elemental error sources in boat-mounted acoustic doppler current profiler measurements by large Eddy simulations

Journal of Hydraulic Engineering

Volumn 135, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 875-887

  Tokyay, T ^a   Constantinescu, G ^b   Gonzalez Castro, A ^b  

^a IA United States   (United States)

^b SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic techniques; Computational fluid dynamics technique; Errors; Flow measurement; Simulation; Turbulence; Uncertainty principles

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC BEAMS; ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILERS; ACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS TECHNIQUE; DISTURBED FLOW; ERROR SOURCES; FLOW DISTURBANCES; HIGH RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL LAYERS; RADIAL VELOCITY; REYNOLDS STRESS; SIMULATION; TIDAL ENVIRONMENTS; UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLES; UNDISTURBED FLOWS; VELOCITIES DATA; WATER DISCHARGES;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; BOATS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW SIMULATION; FLOWMETERS; FLUID DYNAMICS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

DOPPLER EFFECT;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW VELOCITY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; TURBULENCE;

EID: 70350431592     PISSN: 07339429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0000083     Document Type: Article

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