The FloWave facility in Scotland is one of the coolest ocean simulators out there. Equipped with 168 individual wave makers and 28 submerged flow-drive units, it’s capable of recreating almost Keep reading
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Water-Based Tractor Beam
Researchers in Australia have demonstrated a “tractor beam” capable of manipulating floating objects from a distance using surface waves on water. And, unlike some research, you can try to replicate Keep reading
Wave Tank
A new wave tank facility opening at the University of Edinburgh promises new capabilities to simulate ocean wave behavior. The circular 25m diameter wave tank is lined with 168 wave Keep reading
Sand Ripples
Wave motion in a bay or near a beach can cause significant sediment transport. Individual granular particles, like sand, can be lifted by the passage of a single wave, but, Keep reading
Fluids Round-up – 11 January 2014
It’s a big fluids round-up today, so let’s get right to it. Over at txchnologist, there’s a great article on controlling combustion instabilities in rocket engines with sound. Quanta Magazine Keep reading
Following a Breaking Wave
It’s fascinating to sit on the beach and watch the waves roll in and break, but rarely do we get a view like the one in this video. Here researchers Keep reading
Rogue Wave Recreated
For years, mariners have reported occurrences of rogue waves–sudden, isolated waves many times larger than the surrounding surface waves. Until 1995, when a rogue wave was first measured, debate raged Keep reading
Making Waves
A standing wave is created in a wave tank by fixing a wall at one end and moving the other wall–the wave generator–at a frequency such that the outgoing waves Keep reading