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Comparison of 4- and 5-beam acoustic Doppler current profiler configurations for measurement of turbulent kinetic energy
Michael Togneri 
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Dale Jones,
Simon Neill,
Matt Lewis,
Sophie Ward,
Marco Piano,
Ian Masters
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Dale Jones,
Simon Neill,
Matt Lewis,
Sophie Ward,
Marco Piano,
Ian Masters
Energy Procedia, Volume: 125, Pages: 260 - 267
Swansea University Authors:
Michael Togneri , Ian Masters
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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.egypro.2017.08.170
Abstract
Acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs) are commonly used to assess mean currents and turbulence at energetic sites. Since 2014, five-beam ADCP configurations have become more common, but conventional analysis of turbulence properties is still based on the four-beam Janus configuration. We use me...
| Published in: | Energy Procedia |
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| ISSN: | 1876-6102 |
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2017
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa35287 |
| Abstract: |
Acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs) are commonly used to assess mean currents and turbulence at energetic sites. Since 2014, five-beam ADCP configurations have become more common, but conventional analysis of turbulence properties is still based on the four-beam Janus configuration. We use measurements from a single site to investigate improved estimates of turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) that are made possible by the addition of a fifth vertical beam. We conclude that four-beam estimates of TKE are suitable in most cases, and exhibit lower variance than five-beam estimates, but are more prone to contamination by wave activity. |
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| Keywords: |
ADCP; Turbulence; Tidal energy; Ocean current |
| College: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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260 |
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267 |