HSVA – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Standing waves in a tank

mglessmer — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 11:11:09 +0000

And really high order ones, too! On Monday, I showed you a movie on wave generation in Hamburg Ship Model Basin (HSVA)’s wave tank. At the end of that movie, we see that the wave energy is being dissipated by a “beach”. Well, we actually see that some of the energy is reflected in those cute little […]

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Stokes drift

mglessmer — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 11:13:55 +0000

When a higher-order effect suddenly becomes important. During our excursion to Hamburg Ship Model Basin (HSVA), one of the experiments we ran was on Stokes drift. You can already see in that post’s movie that there is some swimming thing moving down the tank in the direction of wave propagation, but of course we had to quantify. “Experiment” sounds too […]

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Wave tank

mglessmer — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 11:34:44 +0000

Excursion to Hamburg Ship Model Basin. I recently got to join a class on their excursion to Hamburg Ship Model Basin (HSVA, “Hamburgische Schiffbau-Versuchsanstalt” klingt so viel besser!). Those are amazing facilities and shipbuilding students are always excited to go there and get a glimpse at all the exciting research going on. Since they are working on […]

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