Marine and Hydrokinetics Research

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  • Expertise in laboratory and field measurements, post-processing and analysis of bulk and mean flow properties of turbulent flows for machine inflow characterization, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model boundary conditions, and CFD model validation.
  Deployed acoustic doppler profiler  
  ORNL deployed acoustic Doppler profiler to measure the flow field around a 1:10 scale MHK device  
  • Development of reference models for hydrokinetic resources, including hydraulic properties of resource, hydrodynamic loads, power density, annual energy production, and morphological and ecosystem properties.
  turbulent flow measurements  
  ORNL conducts detailed turbulent flow measurements at Melton Hill Dam, TN  

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