*Joint winner of the Sounds of UCL competition*
Mechanical Engineering Wave Tank - Kate Oliver
The ocean towing tank can reproduce the waves found in deep water, and is often home to ship models, prototypes for extracting tidal energy, or sea-bourne structures. Engineers use this facility, under the Engineering café, to test their designs and get the information about how water moves around and through them that computer models still aren't good enough to give. Controlled by computers that determine the size and frequency of the waves, panels push and pull hundreds of litres of water into a working model of the ocean.
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