The impact of macroalgae on mean and turbulent flow fields.pdfVIP

427 Availableonlineatwww．sciencedirect．com ‰ ： ScienceDirect JournalofHydrodynam ics www．sciencedirect．com ／ 2015，27(3)：427—435 一 sciencej／ournal DOI：10．1016／$1001—6058(15)605o0—5 Theimpactofmacroalgaeonmeanandturbulentflow fields THOMASRobertE．，MCLELLAND StuartJ． DepartmentofGeography，EnvironmentandEarthSciences，UniversityofHull，Hull，UK， E—mail：r．e．thomas02@members．1eeds．ac．uk (ReceivedDecember25，2014，RevisedMarch15，2015) Abstract：Inthispaper，weattempttoquantifythemeanandturbulentflow fieldsaroundlivemacroalgaewithin atidalinletin Norway．TwoLaminariadigitataspecimens 一0．50m apartwereselectedfordetailedstudyandaprofilingADV wasusedto collect45velocityprofiles，eachcomposedofuptoseven 0．035m-highprofilescollectedofr240sat100Hz，atastreamwise spacingof0．25m andcross—stream spacingof0．20m．Toquantifytheimpactofthemacroalgae，measurementswererepeatedovera sparsergridaftertheregionhadbeencompletelyclearedofalgaeandmajorroughnesselements． Keywords：dealiasing，laminariadigitata，turbulence，vectrinoprofiler，velociytprofile IntrOductiOn typicallypatchyand．therefore．Nadeneta1．L appea- Inrecentyears，asignificantamountofresearch ledofrexperimentalworkto improveunderstanding hasexamined theinteractionsbetweenimmersedve． oftheeffectofvegetationpatchesorindividuallarge getation andflowingwaterL’．W hilstearlyphysical plantsandtheirarrangementon flow fields．Expefi- modelingandtheoreticalsutdiesemployedrigidstru—