great waves! just wondering ..is there some reason the left hand side seems to be set with a slight phase advance on the centre?..its gradual adjusting..
If you look at the paddle bank, you can see that the individual elements (there are 24 of them) are not all moving in unison. The 'rippling' pattern that the paddles are programmed to follow allow the wave front to be propagated at oblique angles to the major axis of the basin. The more pronounced the ripple, the more oblique the angle of the wave propagation would be. In this basin, angles of wave propagation of about 40deg to the major axis of the basin are possible. If all the paddles were to be programmed to move in phase, with equal magnitude, the wave front would travel along the major axis as a long-crested wave. The ability to propagate wave energy at different angles, length and height, throughout the basin allows scaled versions of real sea-states to be reproduced. Being able to repeat these spectra at scale, as well as many other wave conditions (and, in this basin, scaled ocean currents and surface winds too), allows for engineering design optimization of structure/ hydrodynamic interaction to be performed for less money and with less risk than deployment at sea. It's a powerful engineering tool that provides high levels of accuracy and repeatability to be achieved, thereby de-risking deep-water engineering projects, as well as being an instrument for fundamental and applied research.
It nice to see 3D waves
Seems surfable 👍
Nice one!!
great waves! just wondering ..is there some reason the left hand side seems to be set with a slight phase advance on the centre?..its gradual adjusting..
If you look at the paddle bank, you can see that the individual elements (there are 24 of them) are not all moving in unison. The 'rippling' pattern that the paddles are programmed to follow allow the wave front to be propagated at oblique angles to the major axis of the basin. The more pronounced the ripple, the more oblique the angle of the wave propagation would be. In this basin, angles of wave propagation of about 40deg to the major axis of the basin are possible. If all the paddles were to be programmed to move in phase, with equal magnitude, the wave front would travel along the major axis as a long-crested wave. The ability to propagate wave energy at different angles, length and height, throughout the basin allows scaled versions of real sea-states to be reproduced. Being able to repeat these spectra at scale, as well as many other wave conditions (and, in this basin, scaled ocean currents and surface winds too), allows for engineering design optimization of structure/ hydrodynamic interaction to be performed for less money and with less risk than deployment at sea. It's a powerful engineering tool that provides high levels of accuracy and repeatability to be achieved, thereby de-risking deep-water engineering projects, as well as being an instrument for fundamental and applied research.
i wanna swim in there
Wow
That is a vaguely frightening machine.
that Mf boy if you fall and that and no one's around your in some trouble
True
Ocean man
Probably a good way to lose weight, to be in those waves.