TY - JOUR TI - Numerical study of the turbulent eddies generated by the seabed roughness. Case study at a tidal power site AU - Mercier, P AU - Grondeau, M AU - Guillou, S AU - Thiébot, J AU - Poizot, E T2 - Applied Ocean Research AB - Strong tidal power flows are highly turbulent. The role of the seabed roughness on the generation of turbulence is not yet fully understood. Numerical simulation is a promising observation method of turbulent events in three dimensions. In this work, the lattice Boltzmann method is used to simulate turbulent tidal flow at a local scale. The capacity of the method to treat large simulation meshes is exploited to attenuate computational costs. Vertical profiles of velocity and velocity variance are generated from the simulation of a 0.23 km2 domain. The simulation is performed with realistic tidal conditions and seabed morphology. Numerical results are in good agreement with in situ acoustic Doppler current profiler measurements. Large turbulent flow structures generated by seabed roughness are observed in the water column through λ2 criterion visualisation. DA - 2020/04// PY - 2020 PB - Elsevier VL - 97 SP - 102082 UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0141118719308727 DO - 10.1016/j.apor.2020.102082 LA - English KW - Current KW - Tidal KW - Modeling KW - Hydrodynamics ER -