Test facility
A physical wave tank, of 50m long, 1m wide and 1m deep, is established at the Department of Civil Engineering, during early 2013, thanks largely to Department and Institute research funds. One end of the wave tank is installed with an electrical-motor-driven, computer controlled wave paddle that can generate wide range of wave characteristics of desired periods and heights. A sloping beach was provided at the other end of the wave tank for wave absorption. At the centre of the wave tank, a 5m wide glass wall was fitted to observe the physical phenomenon. The system consists of an in-built active wave absorption facility to nullify the re-reflected waves.
- Regular/monochromatic waves
- Random waves (pre-defined uni & bi-modal spectrum)
- Shallow water waves (cnoidal & solitary)
- Breaking waves
- Group waves
- User defined (scaled field measurements)