The present study deals with the flow over a flat roughness to investigate the effects of the size of roughness plate with repeated roughness elements of 2-dimensional elements and the distance between them. Experiment was rectangular shape, which can be applied into the study on the performed in circulating water channel (CWC), and PIV natural geographical roughness and the turbulent flow on technique was employed to measure the mean and turbulence roughened solid surface. Experiment was performed using PIV characteristics around the roughened surface of 3 different technique in the circulating water channel. Results showed that . F the flow over roughness elements was characterized by the high roughness spacings. Further analyses using the law-of-the shear flow emanating from top of roughness element and the wall and the boundary layer integral parameters were made to recirculating region formed at the trough of two roughness quantifytheeffectofthechangeofroughnessspacing. elements. It was also confirmed that k-type roughness is certainly a more effective means than d-type roughness in thickening the viscous layer. In general, the ratio between the 1 MODEL,INSTRUMENTATION AND PIV spacing and the height of roughness elements plays a crucial role TECHNIQUES in developing the flow pattern near wall surface. The repeated readjustable rectangular-shaped roughness elements were attached to the flat plate made of PVC, where I. INTRODUCTION the number of elements varies from 7 to 22 depending on Flow in nature is inherently turbulent with a variety of their spacings. Measuring location was 7500 downstream of roughness elements such as oceanic and seabed roughnesses plate in length from leading edge of plate to achieve the better as well as atmospheric macro-/micro-scale roughnesses. periodicity of flow. A rectangular element has the height (H) Effects of surface roughness include the resistance increment of 20mm and w/H=1 where w is the width of element. Three on body, change of seabed shape and sediment transport etc. different distances between elements were chosen: s/H = 3.5, Relatively simple elements like rectangular-shaped or wavy 7, 14, where s denotes the roughness spacing. Model was surfaces were used for fundamental study to elucidate the installed inside CWC with its dimension of 5m in length, effect of roughness on boundary layer flow. [1], [2] 1 .8m in width and 1 .2m in height. One side of test was stuck to the wall of CWC, while a thin flat plate is attached to the Previous studies 3utliedthLother side to avoid the interferences by supporting strut and Previous studies [3], [4], [5] utilized the Law-of-theother stuffs. Freestream velocity U0was set to 0.24m/s so that Wall, which is the only available practical way to study the change of flow characteristics due to various kinds of Reynolds number based on freestream velocity and roughness cnane o flw caraterst1c au tovarousKmo ot height was 4210. Flow periodicity between adjacent roughness such as the well-known sand grain roughness, 2-D roughn was esim ...