Instructions: Dead water demonstration in the GFI basement
This blog post is meant as guidelines if someone other than me might have to set up this demonstration at some point… Have fun! :-) Setting up the stratification If…
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Demonstration: Nansen’s “dead water” in a tank!
A ship that is continuously pulled with a constant force suddenly slows down, stops, and then continues sailing as if nothing ever happened? What’s going on there? We will investigate…
Please discuss: Experimental setup for Nansen’s “dead water”
During my last visit to Bergen in August, we set up a nice “dead water” experiment. However, there are nice experiments, and then there are awesome experiments, and since Elin…
Dead water — the fancy experiment including Nansen himself
Now that we do have a really awesome 12-layer 6-color stratification, we obviously had to do the dead water experiment again. This time we chose to include a not-too-happy-looking Nansen…
“Dead water” or: ship-generated internal waves
And here is another experiment that can be done with the same stratification as the lee waves: Towing a ship to explore the phenomenon of “dead water”! Dead water is…