Calibrating the Loss Coefficient of a Porous Plate
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Abstract
Marine structures are sometimes represented in coastal ocean circulation models as a porous plate that exerts drag on the flow and dissipates energy. Such a representation requires that a loss coefficient be specified to reduce the flow speed to some prescribed fraction of the upstream incident flow. To provide guidance and a framework for this problem, the case of a uniform channel that is partially blocked by a porous structure is considered. Drawing on existing results from actuator disc theory, simple analytical relations are presented for the dependence of the flow speed through a porous plate on the loss coefficient. It is shown that limitations on representing structures with high hydrodynamic loading using an actuator disc in an unbounded region can be avoided by allowing for weak geometrical blockage by lateral boundaries.
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The author is grateful to Chris Garrett and two reviewers for useful suggestions and comments.
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Volume 143 • Issue 2 • March 2017
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Received: Feb 19, 2016
Accepted: Jun 16, 2016
Published online: Aug 11, 2016
Discussion open until: Jan 11, 2017
Published in print: Mar 1, 2017
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