The Flowave tank has been featured in a promotional video by ABB motion control.
ABBs drives were utilised throughout the facility and their motors power each of the 168 wave paddles.
Piston paddles installed at Rijeka University, Croatia
Edinburgh Designs have installed six pistons into a new coastal research basin at the University of Rijeka in Croatia.
Edinburgh Designs fits new wavemakers at the Stevens Institute
Edinburgh Designs have successfully fitted new wavemakers at the Davidson Laboratory at the Stevens Institute in Hoboken, New Jersey.
The six independent, absorbing paddles are a big step up from the ancient, hydraulic flap that was used previously .
How does the U.S. Navy prepare for monster waves?
With an Edinburgh Designs wave machine!
Edinburgh Designs to supply wavemakers for The University of Maine’s Wind/Wave tank.
Edinburgh designs have been awarded the contract to supply sixteen 1.8m hinge depth flap paddle wave makers to the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC) new W2 – Wind/Wave – tank.
FloWave tank officially opened
Edinburgh University’s spectacular new circular wave and current tank, designed and built by Edinburgh Designs, has been officially opened. This tank can create 360 degree waves and current, independently of each other, and has been designed to simulate wave conditions anywhere in European seas. Waves are created using 168 paddles arranged around the tank, and strong tidal flow conditions can be simulated using 28 propellers located under the floor. The centre of the floor can be raised to the surface to assist in setting up devices.
Read more and see a video of the tank in operation on the BBC news website.
Construction underway on new UCC Beaufort Laboratory
Construction is underway on the new Beaufort Laboratory which will house University College Cork’s new National Ocean Test Facility. Edinburgh Designs is supplying 16 2.5m flap wavemakers for a deep water flume, along with a hydraulically driven movable floor, for the main deep water basin. A coastal flume will be fitted with 8 0.7m flap wakemakers, also supplied by Edinburgh Designs. The third basin, the Ocean Wave Basin, will have wave generation provided by the relocated 40 x 0.7m flap wavemaker originally built by Edinburgh Designs for UCC in 1993 .
US Department of Energy wave power competition to use MASK basin.
The US Department of Energy has announced a new $6.5 million competition to promote low cost wave power. The competition will use the Navy’s MASK basin, recently upgraded by Edinburgh Designs, to test the devices.
Read more at cleantechnica.com
FloWave tank now making waves.
The FloWave tank at the University of Edinburgh is now complete and making waves. The video below shows a large focus event from all directions, something uniquely possible in a circular tank.
Carderock basin officially opens
The US Navy’s new upgrade to the Manouvering and Seakeeping (MASK) basin was officially opened in a ribbon cutting ceremony on 19th December by Dr. John Holdren, assistant to the president for Science and Technology.
The upgrade to the 360-foot long and 240 foot-wide (110x73m) facility consists of 216 flap paddles designed by Edinburgh Designs Ltd, and can reproduce a wide variety of scale model sea conditions with continuous regular waves up to 1 metre in height possible.