Flume Applications

Instruments

Examples

• ADV - Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter

• Wave Flume Measurements - Shows how an ADV was used to measure the orbital velocities of a wave field within a flume.

• Argonaut-SW (Shallow Water)

• SW Goes All the Way - Evaluation of Argonaut-SW ability to collect data to the water's surface; comparison made with FlowTracker.

• FlowTracker Handheld ADV

• Indiana Stream Discharge - Describes how USGS personnel used a FlowTracker to measure discharge in eight Indiana streams.
• Tow Tank Test - Describes how the FlowTracker Handheld ADV was tested at a USGS tow tank.

• MicroADV

• Flume Studies - Shows how a MicroADV was used to measure turbulence and mean flow over a flume water column by Wuhan University (China).