U.S.-France Cooperative Research: Laboratory in Numerical Simulations of Unsteady Background Flows Impinging on Arrays of Submarine Canyons

9815667 Boyer这项为期三年的奖项旨在支持美法海洋科学合作研究，获奖者包括亚利桑那州立大学的Don Boyer、David Smith、Nicholas Perenne和法国格勒诺布尔生态地球物理与工业实验室的Dominique Renouard。他们将对深海峡谷阵列附近的均匀不可压缩流体的振荡流动进行一系列实验室实验和相关的数值模型。该项目的目标是增进对沿海洋流系统性质的了解，并提供可用作验证数值模式基准的实验室数据集。特别是，改进后的模型可以用来预测营养物质和污染物沿海岸以及进出大洋峡谷阵列的输送情况。美国调查人员将数值建模方面的专业知识带到了这次合作中。这一点得到了法国在实验室实验设计方面的专业知识的补充。它还利用了直径13米、深度1米的旋转水箱设施，比亚利桑那州立大学目前提供的水箱更大。该坦克将用于模拟海洋环境，特别是大陆坡地区。

9815667BoyerThis three-year award in support of U.S.-France collaborative research in ocean sciences involves Don Boyer, David Smith, Nicholas Perenne at Arizona State University and Dominique Renouard of the Laboratoire des Ecoulements Geophysiques et Industriels in Grenoble, France. They will conduct a series of laboratory experiments and associated numerical models of the oscillatory flow of homogenous incompressible fluid in the vicinity of canyon arrays in the deep ocean. The goals of the project are to improve understanding of the nature of coastal current systems and to provide laboratory data sets that can be used as benchmarks for the validation of numerical models. In particular improved models could be used to predict the transport of nutrients and pollutants along the coast and into or out of ocean canyon arrays. The US investigators bring to this collaboration expertise in numerical modeling. This is complemented by French expertise in the design of the laboratory experiments. It also takes advantage of a 13 m diameter, 1 m deep rotating tank facility, a larger tank than iscurrently available at Arizona State University. The tank will be used to simulate the ocean environment, in particular, the continental slope region.