Directional Variations in Tidal Flow Multifractality and Intermittency

Cheng, Shyuan; Neary, Vincent S.; Chamorro, Leonardo P.

doi:10.1029/2025jc022463

Directional Variations in Tidal Flow Multifractality and Intermittency

Journal Article · Sat May 31 00:00:00 EDT 2025 · Journal of Geophysical Research. Oceans

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1029/2025jc022463· OSTI ID:2584044

^[1]; Neary, Vincent S. ^[2]; ^[1]

Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

We explored distinct directional variations of multifractal and intermittent characteristics of ebb and flood flow velocities at nodule point, WA, tidal energy site, and complementary inspection on the East River, NY using scaling exponents of the structure function, distribution flatness, detrending moving average (DMA) analysis, multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis (MF-DFA), and high-order spectral moments. Our findings reveal that tidal flow presents higher long-range dependence (LRD) and intermittent levels for the ebb flow sections, whereas the flood flow sections exhibit a higher degree of multifractality and greater sensitivity to larger magnitude of turbulent fluctuations. We demonstrate that long-range dependence predominantly contributes to multifractal behavior in both ebb and flood flows, as evidenced by the significantly reduced multifractal spectrum width for temporally randomly permuted time series. Moreover, spectral kurtosis analysis uncovers a higher intermittent level across all frequency scales for ebb flow sections and reveals a distinct pattern of tidal flow intermittency differing from the monotonically increasing intermittent level observed in wall-bounded and grid turbulence. Finally, we demonstrate that DMA, MF-DFA, and high-order spectral moments provide more comprehensive insights than structure function scaling exponents and PDF flatness methods.

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Research Organization:: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Grant/Contract Number:: NA0003525

OSTI ID:: 2584044

Journal Information:: Journal of Geophysical Research. Oceans, Journal Name: Journal of Geophysical Research. Oceans Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 130; ISSN 2169-9275; ISSN 2169-9291

Publisher:: American Geophysical UnionCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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