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15 - General Engineering
University of Edinburgh (joint submission with Heriot-Watt University)
Forward and inverse problems in towed cable hydrodynamics
This internationally co-authored paper presents a new framework for real-time estimation of ocean currents that impinge on a towed streamer by observing the streamer’s deformation and tension profile. The work was part of a Schlumberger-funded project (£200k, Jens Olav Paulsen) for profiling surface ocean velocity fields at metre-scale resolution, securing the US patent award 7778109 B2. This work is being applied by Schlumberger (Robert Laws) with the British Antarctic Survey (Emily Shuckburgh) in a £150k physical oceanography project (now awarded: NE/L008246/1), which achieves higher resolution than that obtainable from satellite remote sensing, see their recent published paper DoI:10.3997/2214-4609.20130211. (Emails available).
