Engineers at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, used the AST capability on the AWAC to measure various characteristics of the breaking wave generated from a submerged ship transom. The primary objective of this work was to obtain full-scale qualitative and quantitative flow-field data of a large breaking transom wave over a range of conditions, specifically transom drafts and Froude numbers.
Results from the experiment are presented in the proceedings of the 2008 ASME Fluids Engineering Conference.
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AWAC used for wave measurement in ship wake study
The Acoustic Surface Tracking (AST) capability of Nortek’s AWAC sensor was used for a comprehensive ship wake study by engineers at the US Naval Surface Warfare Center.
