Horizontal negatively buoyant jets in deep sea mining: The influence of initial concentration of discharged slurries on the spatial spread of turbidity currents

Recently, deep-sea mining has acquired renewed interest from commercial companies due to a rise in the demand of minerals and metals. Deep-sea mining is focussed on different minerals and rare earth elements found in the oceans that are increasingly used in the manufacturing of goods and products related to renewable energy. In order to collect...

A Feature Tracking Velocimetry algorithm to determine the velocities in Negatively Buoyant Jets

We present a novel algorithm, namely Feature Tracking Velocimetry (FTV), which is less sensitive to the appearance and disappearance of particles and to high velocity gradients than classical Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). The basic idea of FTV is to compare windows only where the motion detection may be successful, that is where there are...