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
Two years ago Engineering Professor William Rede Hawthorne of Britain's Cambridge University got empty sausage skins from his butcher, filled them with alcohol, tied the ends and towed them in the laboratory's wave tank.
From Time Magazine Archive
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