Specifications

• Building for wave generation and pumping facilities

• Freshwater 

• Flume Cross Section: 18m W  x 15m H (59' W x 49' H)

• Flume Length: 560m (1837’)

• Flume Sections: Wave generator, Wave generation section, 

      Coastal slope, Coastal plain, Wave absorber 

• Wave Generation: piston-type paddles, unidirectional

• Maximum Water Depth: 10m

• Maximum Wave Height: 5m (16’) with Max Period of 14 s

• Design Surge: 4m

• Separate building for wind generation, staging, viewing

• Wind Cross Section: 18m W x 16m H (59’ W x 52.5’ H)

• Wind Speed: ~185 MPH (uniform), ~205 MPH (typ. BL profile)

• Fetch Length: 130.4 m

• Fans: 20x 16' fans – 4000 HP each

• Open and Closed Circuit modes​​​​

• Max speed:  ~155 MPH (uniform); ~174 MPH (typ BL profile)

• ​Use Case: destructive testing

• Limitations: Less efficient, environmental exposure

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• Max speed: ~185 MPH (uniform); ~207 MPH (typ BL profile)
  Use Case: Higher speed, controlled testing

• Limitations: Non-destructive testing only​

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• Motorized Louver System arranged into modular “cabinets” 

• Each louver is individually controllable, can spin full 360 deg

• Max speed ~5 rad / sec (286 deg / sec)

• Key parameters:

  • Vertical Acceleration: 0-30 m/s2

  • Pressure Change: 1-100 mb

  • Direction Change over Time: 0.05-5 rad/s

  • Direction Change over Radius: 0.007-0.09 rad/m

  • Translation Speed: 0-30 m/s

  • Radial Gradient in Velocity: 0.6-6.5 s-1

• Installed in flow management section

• Solid Bottom for Hydrodynamic-Only Studies

  • Fixed concrete platform with adjustable elevation

  • Offshore slopes can be altered by rearranging slabs

• Morphodynamic Studies

  • Uses subset of concrete slabs and/or sediment 

  • Reproduce Atlantic & Gulf Coast beaches 

• Sediment Pit for testing foundations and pile systems 

• ​Separate pump systems for:

  • filling/draining/recirculation

  • currents