This dataset includes laboratory measurements of both the force on individual salt marsh plants and the flow structure and wave energy dissipation over a meadow of plants.Data measured in the individual plant experiment (IE) was represented as synchronized measurements of plant drag and free surface displacement, as well as 3-dimensional velocity profiles provided as raw data, phase-averaged data, and statistical data. The meadow experiments (ME) provide time-varying data of free surface displacement along the meadow at 10 and 15 cm intervals, as well as velocity profiles upstream of and within the meadow with 1 to 2 cm vertical resolution. In addition, the turbulent kinetic energy for each measurements and the wave decay coefficients for all conditions were calculated and reported.
Data sourced from figshare website（ https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/A_dataset_on_the_hydrodynamic_force_on_individual_salt_marsh_plant_and_the_flow_structure_and_wave_dessipation_over_a_meadow_of_plants_under_waves_with_and_without_current/24117144 ）.
Both experiments were conducted in the Nepf Fluid Mechanics lab at MIT in a 24-m-long, 38-cm-wide, 60-cm-tall water channel.
The data quality is good.
This work is licensed under
CC BY 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License).
CSTR:11738.11.NCDC.FIGSHARE.DB6864.2025
10.6084/m9.figshare.24117144.v3
