ADV Applications

Applications

Examples

• Charleston Clam Pens - The Marine Resources Research Institute used an ADV to measure the effect of clam pens on food distribution.

• Charleston Clam Pens - The Marine Resources Research Institute used an ADV to measure the effect of clam pens on food distribution.
• Martha's Vineyard - Describes a laboratory evaluation and a field deployment of an ADV in the benthic boundary layer south of Martha's Vineyard during Hurricane Edouard by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

• Rio Grande - Describes a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation project using an ADV to obtain detailed velocity profiles in the Rio Grande low-flow channel near Socorro, New Mexico.
• 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.

• Dredge Head - Shows how an ADV can be used to map the field flow around a dredge head.

• ADV Performance Curves - Explains a methodology used by UIUC to resolve flow turbulence.
• Dredge Head - Shows how an ADV can be used to map the field flow around a dredge head.

• Flume Studies - Shows how a MicroADV was used to measure turbulence and mean flow over a flume water column by Wuhan University (China).
• 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.
• Wave Flume Measurements - Shows how an ADV was used to measure the orbital velocities of a wave field within a flume.

• Fish Screen - Learn about an interesting project at Washington State in which an ADV is being used to help develop a fish screen.

• ADV Performance Curves - Explains a methodology used by UIUC to resolve flow turbulence.
• Fish Screen - Learn about an interesting project at Washington State in which an ADV is being used to help develop a fish screen.
• Flow Field - Shows how an ADV can be used to map the field flow around a dredge head in a laboratory environment.
• 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.

• Lake Mead - Describes limnological studies by the USBR on the Las Vegas and Boulder Basins in Lake Mead, Nevada.

• Everglades - Explains how an ADV was used to collect low-flow data in the Florida Everglades.
• Stennis Space Center - Shows how an ADV was used for low-flow studies around vegetation in a laboratory setting at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.

• MAC3D - Describes how an ADV was used by the USGS to measure water velocity profiles induced by air diffusers and mixers in a test tank and in a reservoir.

• Fish Screen - Learn about an interesting project at Washington State in which an ADV is being used to help develop a fish screen.

• Dredge Head - Shows how an ADV can be used to map the field flow around a dredge head.
• Fluid Mud - Shows how an ADV Hydra was used to help understand the influence of high-concentration suspensions of of fine sediments on flow.
• 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.

• Surf Zone - Shows how an ADV was used to collect data in the surf zone of a local San Diego beach.

• ADV Performance Curves - Explains a methodology used by UIUC to resolve flow turbulence.

• MAC3D - Describes how an ADV was used by the USGS to measure water velocity profiles induced by air diffusers and mixers in a test tank and in a reservoir.
• Settling Basins - Describes how an ADV was used to evaluate the flow fields in the settling basins of a water treatment facility.
• Water Treatment Facility - Describes how a Chinese organization used an ADVOcean to evaluate total open-channel flow.

• Directional Wave Measurements - Describes how these measurements can be made with most of our instruments.
• 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.