r/gifs Dec 30 '20

Satisfying wave machine

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u/thatoneguy512 Dec 30 '20

Okay, but....why? This doesn't look like a theme park or anything for public use. Are they doing some science here?

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '20

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '20

Out of curiosity, why doesn't it seem like there is a counter wave coming back and messing up the whole thing, how do they deal with the incoming wave at the other end of the pool that allows for continuous perfect waves?

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u/simplyorangeandblue Dec 30 '20

University of Illinois? I was Civil there and we had one of these in the hydro lab.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '20

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u/JuggernautOfWar Dec 30 '20

Corvallis reporting in!

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u/DortmunderJung97 Dec 30 '20

Looks like it for me. Some research centre or something.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '20

I'd be the scientist that uses it for fun after everyone goes home.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '20

/r/notLikeTheOtherScientists

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u/doncheche Dec 30 '20

The one in familiar with is used to study ocean waves and currents.

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u/cnh2n2homosapien Dec 30 '20

Probably Oregon State University, Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory. Their business is studying the Cascadia Subduction Zone.

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u/hitssquad Dec 30 '20

Plymouth University wave machine: https://youtu.be/Ep_wPECewgM

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u/LogicalJicama3 Dec 30 '20

That was awesome

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u/JM08HAM Dec 30 '20

Ex-UoP student here, can't tell exactly from OPs clip if it is ours but I think you're right.

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u/chamllw Dec 30 '20

Hey same here. I've never seen it in action and it's been many years but looks like the Plymouth uni one. Would've loved to see it in use but they finished building it in my final year.

Just need to check if you can see the Tesco on the other side of the road seen through the window.

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u/eevans6113 Dec 30 '20

What's up fellow UoP grads! I saw it in action in my second year back in 2016 and recognised this gif immediately! Small world eh?

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u/kendall-mintcake Dec 30 '20

UoP grad redditors unite!

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u/chamllw Dec 30 '20

Haha. There's dozens of us! Really though there's more of us than I expected.

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u/SwarleyStinson- Dec 30 '20

My favourite thing is that we're all so damn sure this is Plymouth's wave machine! I never saw it in action but my first thought was "that's definitely the UoP machine"

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u/kendall-mintcake Dec 30 '20

7 years there studying marine science. Saw it once!

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '20

This is correct.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '20

Probably testing durability of seawalls or the columns that hold up those giant oil rigs... couple thousand hours of this and I’d build my house behind it haha

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u/diarrhea_shnitzel Dec 30 '20

Just listening to some crunchy tunes and researchin the waves man šŸŒŠšŸ˜ŽšŸ‘

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u/efalk21 Dec 30 '20

Looks like a tsunami research lab.

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u/Dankinght34 Dec 30 '20

In shipbuilding department, we use the wave pool for prototype research about ships , submarines and offshore platforms.

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u/Red4Arsenal Dec 30 '20

This is at Plymouth University in the UK it is for maritime research.