Quantifying turbulence for tidal power applications

MTS/IEEE Seattle, OCEANS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Thomson, Jim ^a   Polagye, Brian ^a   Richmond, Marshall ^b   Durgesh, Vibhav ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; ACOUSTIC DOPPLER VELOCIMETER; DOPPLER NOISE; PING DATA; POWER APPLICATIONS; PUGET SOUND; STANDARD DEVIATION; TURBULENT DISSIPATION RATES; TURBULENT INTENSITIES; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY;

DOPPLER EFFECT; TIDAL POWER; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

KINETIC ENERGY;

EID: 78651278343     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS.2010.5664600     Document Type: Conference Paper

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