Laboratory Applications

Instruments

Examples

• ADV - Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter

• Fish Screen - Learn about an interesting project at Washington State in which an ADV is being used to help develop a fish screen.
• Flow Fields - Shows how an ADV can be used to map the flow field around a dredge head.
• Low-Flow Studies - Shows how an ADV was used for low-flow studies around vegetation in a laboratory setting at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
• Undersea Channel Study - Shows how a PC-ADP and ADVs are being used in an oil recovery study at MIT's Experimental Sedimentology and Geomorphology Lab.
• Wave Field Measurements - Shows how several ADVs were used to study currents generated by a wave field at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
• Wave Flume Measurements - Shows how an ADV was used to measure the orbital velocities of a wave field within a flume.

• FlowTracker Handheld ADV

• South Platte River - Describes a model verification project using a FlowTracker at Colorado State University.

• PC-ADP

• Undersea Channel Study - Shows how a PC-ADP and ADVs are being used in an oil recovery study at MIT's Experimental Sedimentology and Geomorphology Lab.