Department of Ocean Engineering, University of Rhode Island – Wave Tank

  • Indoor wave tank or basin testing
  • Tow tank testing
  • WEC hydrodynamics
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Description

The University of Rhode Island (URI) operates the Wave and Tow Tank in the Department of Ocean Engineering, hosted at the Narragansett Bay Campus. The wave tank is 30 m long, 3.6 m wide and 1.8 m deep with a hinged, flapper style hydraulic wave maker at the end. The LabVIEW and MATLAB based control system are capable of producing both regular and irregular waves in a wide array of wave heights and periods; the achievable range for the wave height and the wave period are 0-0.30 m and 0.5 to 2 s, respectively. The Wave Tank has 20 m of adjustable beach for different shoaling profiles and a 2 m/s towing carriage. Wave gauges, pressure sensors, and force transducers are available to use the Wave Tank. The Wave Tank is used for a broad range of testing, including work on wave energy extraction, turbines (using towing carriage), acoustic measurement of surface waves, and wave-induced forcing on marine structures.

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Point of Contact:
Reza Hashemi – reza_hashemi@uri.edu