| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/R64438/01 |
| Title: |
Relocation of a multidirectional mixed wave spectrum test tank with modifications for reduced area and minimum cross-wave errors |
| Principal Investigator: |
Salter, Professor S |
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| Department: |
Sch of Mechanical Engineering |
| Organisation: |
University of Edinburgh |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 March 2002 |
Ends: |
28 February 2003 |
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142,672
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| Instrumentation Eng. & Dev. |
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The present Edinburgh wide tank has to be demolished on 1st August 2001 to make way for a JIF-funded building. Its wavemakers and electronics will have been stored for reuse in a new tank. The test region of the new tank will have a non-rectangular plan. Wave makers will form a non-perpendicular L-shape along two adjacent sides. Reflections from a glass viewing window will give the effect of additional virtual wavemakers with more than 180 degree angular spread. However the reflecting window will not be parallel to anything else and so the effect will NOT be like that of the parallel mirrors of a laser, which allow cross waves to increase in size.At the end of the test region the tank plan will revert to a parallel form but with a progressivley increasing density of wave absorbing material arranged in V-shaped vertical prisms like the bow of a ship. Our previous beaches designed on this principle accupied only a 2 metre length in the direction of wave propagation. They managed to achieve a reflection coefficent of only 2% at larger waves but this rose for the smaller wave steepnesses associated with measurements of hydrodynamic coefficients. The floor area of the new building allows a longer length of beach which we hope to exploit for low steepness tests.
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