Hydrokinetic turbine array performance and geomorphic effects under different siting strategies and sediment transport conditions: topography, flow velocity and array performance measurements.

Abstract
Hydrokinetic energy can be extracted efficiently from naturally occurring water flows. Although representing a continuous and ubiquitous source of kinetic energy, rivers in particular are delicate environments, sensitive to external disturbances. Asymmetric installation of in-stream hydrokinetic energy converters have proven to actively interact with sediment transport and bedforms characteristics, triggering non-local geomorphic effects that resemble river instabilities known as forced-bars. This data-set comprises a series of measurements of channel topography evolution, flow velocity around the turbines and array performance under different configurations.

Description
Please see Readme files included in each data folder.

Funding information
Sponsorship: National Science Foundation CAREER: Geophysical Flow Control (award ID 13513013); CEGE Department fellowship awarded to PhD student M. Musa