Duringthedesignandconstructionofthedeepwateroffshorebasin,itscurrentgenerationsystemisconsideredtobeoneofthekeytechnologies.Inthisarticle,thestate-of-the-artdeepwateroffshorebasinatShanghaiJiaotongUniversitywasexaminedasacasestudy.Different3-Dnumericalmodelsofthecurrentgenerationsystemweredevelopedandcalculated.Theuniformityofflowfieldinthebasin,suchashorizontalandverticalcurrentvelocityprofiles,werecalculatedindetail.Besides,a1:10scaledmodeltestwasalsocarriedout.Thecurrentvelocitiesatdifferentlocationsinthebasinweremeasuredandcomparedwiththecalculatedresults.Itisconcludedthatsatisfactoryagreementcanberesultedbetweenthenumericalsimulationandmodeltest.Inaddition,itissuggestedthattransitionsectionsandturningvanesneedtobesetininflowandoutflowculvertstoimprovetheuniformityofflowfieldinthebasin.Andthehydraulicperformanceofthedeepwatercurrentgenerationsystemcanmeettherequirementsofmodeltestsindeepwater.
