Assessing and improving the Edinburgh curved wave tank

Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 269-275

  Pascal, Rémy ^a   Lucas, Jorge ^a   Ingram, David ^a   Bryden, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Reflection coefficient; Wave angle; Wave energy; Wave tank

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE TESTING; GEOMETRICAL CONSTRAINTS; INCIDENT WAVE FIELD; INCIDENT WAVES; LINEAR WAVE THEORY; MULTI-DIRECTIONAL; PHASE DIFFERENCE; POLYCHROMATIC WAVES; REFLECTION COEFFICIENT; REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WAVE AMPLITUDES; WAVE COMPONENTS; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS; WAVE TANK; WAVE VELOCITY;

BEACHES; MONOCHROMATORS; PROBES; REFLECTION; TANKS (CONTAINERS); WAVE POWER; WAVEFRONTS;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

EID: 74549205768     PISSN: 10986189     EISSN: 15551792     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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