Accession Number:

ADA190802

Title:

XDP (Expendable Dissipation Profiler) Mechanics,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

NAVAL OCEAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY NSTL STATION MS

Personal Author(s):

• Saunders, Kim D.
• Knauer, Linda

Report Date:

1983-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

6.0

Abstract:

Interactions between the oceanic vertical shear field and the natural response of a recently developed expendable dissipation profiler XDP velocity measurements. A numerical model was developed to study this problem and two sources of errors were determined, the primary source being the shear induced torques at the instrument length scale.

Descriptors:

• *DISSIPATION
• *TURBULENCE
• ERRORS
• EXPENDABLE
• INSTRUMENTATION
• LENGTH
• MATHEMATICAL MODELS
• MEASUREMENT
• OCEANS
• PROFILES
• RESPONSE
• SCALE
• SHEAR PROPERTIES
• TORQUE
• VELOCITY
• VERTICAL ORIENTATION
• OCEANOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT
• RATES
• PROBES
• OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA

Subject Categories:

• Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
• Fluid Mechanics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE