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

这个为期三年的奖项旨在支持美国和法国在海洋科学领域的合作研究，参与者包括美国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质不可压缩流体的振荡流动进行一系列的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，并提供可作为验证数值模式基准的实验室数据集。特别是改进的模型可以用来预测沿海岸和进出海洋峡谷阵列的营养物和污染物的运输。美国研究人员为这次合作带来了数值模拟方面的专业知识。法国在设计实验室实验方面的专门知识也补充了这一点。它还利用了直径13米、深1米的旋转水箱设施，这是一个比亚利桑那州立大学目前可用的更大的水箱。该水箱将用于模拟海洋环境，特别是大陆斜坡地区。

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.