Force based absorption ensures that the wave environment stays stable, preventing cross wave build-up and other parasitic effects.
Edinburgh Designs wave machines also remain accurate over time and continue to work well when the waves are breaking off the front of the paddles. Generating waves with a curved corner using linear wave theory leads to an unwanted wave in the tank. It is a second harmonic of the desired wave, arising when using linear theory to generate waves around a curved corner and along the paddles downstream. By adding in theoretical predictions for second order wave-paddle interactions, the spurious second harmonic is eliminated.
This is a leading edge mathematical technique that has been developed by Edinburgh Designs Mathematicians. Tests performed at: Technology Centre for Offshore and Marine, Singapore (TCOMS)