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Design And Testing Of Experimental Langmuir Turbulence Facilities, Zongze Li
Design And Testing Of Experimental Langmuir Turbulence Facilities, Zongze Li
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Langmuir Circulation is a common phenomenon driven by wind in oceans and lakes and was first studied by Langmuir in 1927. According to various ocean observations, this kind of phenomenon plays an important role in many phenomena such as the aggregation of bubbles, the distribution of plankton as well as the mixing of spilled oil and sediment in the ocean. To study this, an experimental facility has been developed in the lab which creates a small scale version of Langmuir Circulation.
This thesis is about the design and testing of this tank and surrounding aluminum frame, as well as the …