Oyster Castle Hydrodynamics and Sediment Data with 3D Roughness Scans

5.0 GB of curated data and Python scripts supporting a study on oyster castles for coastal protection. The repository contains phase-averaged velocity fields, Reynolds stresses, turbulent kinetic energy, suspended sediment concentrations, and bed shear stress distributions. Author Salman Alkhidhr uploaded the complete package to figshare in April 2026 to enable reproduction of the paper's figures.

Use Cases

• Visualizing phase-averaged velocity fields and Reynolds stresses based on the provided .npz files.
• Analyzing suspended sediment concentration (SSC) evolution using the bundled data and quick-view video tools.
• Comparing bed shear stress distributions for bare vs. oyster-populated seabeds under different energy conditions.
• Replotting 3D surface roughness from the preprocessed oyster castle point cloud data.

Strengths

• Includes 5.0 GB of processed data files, Python scripts, and supplementary materials for full reproducibility.
• Provides a one-stop driver script to reproduce all figures from the associated manuscript.
• Data is structured into clear categories: Hydrodynamics, Suspended Sediment Concentration, Bed Shear Stresses, and 3D Roughness.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for some analytical tasks.
• The dataset's specific experimental conditions and spatial/temporal scope are not detailed in the provided metadata.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Likely collected from controlled laboratory flume experiments on oyster castle models.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-23 21:24:55; freshness should be verified.