wave tank
Americannoun
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They assembled a number of cylinders, each spaced about a foot apart, to form a fence-like structure, which they then lowered into a wave tank at MIT.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2024
Working with other scientists from U.S.C., the two men built a prototype wave tank, modelling the long, powerful, immaculate wave that Slater imagined.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 2018
Users might, for example, make waves in a wave tank and watch them interact.
From Nature ● Oct. 2, 2018
I built a wave tank in the back of Mr. Ferretti’s classroom, adjusting a small electric fan and a cardboard baffle and other elements until I generated miniature breakers foaming on a mock beach.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2010
Seeking a quick way to build up Western Europe's oil-hauling capacity, Hawthorne began experimenting in a wave tank with sausage skins filled with alcohol.
From Time Magazine Archive
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