The application of coastal acoustic tomography to a large experimental wave/current basin

This article describes the use of acoustic tomography to characterize the flow pattern in the Flowave basin. Flowave is a unique circular wave/current basin, 2 m deep and 25 m in diameter. Current can be created in any direction at speed of up to 1.2 ms.-1. Two coastal acoustic tomography (CAT) stations were used operating at 50 kHz with a M- sequence signal. By combining three different pairs of station positions and seven current directions a network of seven CAT stations has been emulated. Throughout the test, a current speed of 0.8 ms-1 was used. Using the inverse Fourier method, a velocity profile has been obtained. During the experiment, a Nortek vectrino velocimetry was placed between the stations. This paper will present the comparison between the vectrino and CAT measurement.