Atmospheric Flows
About Atmospheric Flow Research
The atmospheric boundary layer, referring to the lowermost section of the Earth’s atmosphere, is largely influenced by its interactions with earth’s surface. SAFL researchers use laboratory experiments, field campaigns, numerical simulations, and innovative imaging techniques to investigate a wide-range of near-surface processes, including wall turbulence, thermal stability, and applications involving complex terrains.
SAFL Affiliated Faculty
Michele Guala
Jiarong Hong
Lian Shen
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Harnessing clean energy from rivers through hydrokinetic turbine arrays
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Hydrokinetic turbines are an emerging hydropower technology that take advantage of moving water currents to generate power.
SAFL team designs flume to support juvenile fish studies
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The United States Geological Survey (USGS) tasked SAFL researchers with the design of a race-track style flume, with the geometry and hydraulic conditions for early life stages of pallid sturgeon, an ancient but endangered fish species which historically inhabited the Missouri and lower Mississippi rivers
Channel belt evolution in braided rivers
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Channel belts are wide corridors created by the movement of a river over time, as shown by geologic indicators such as abandoned channels and eroded valley margins. The purpose of this study was to evaluate how channel migration causes individual braided channel belts to grow using SAFL's main channel.