A circulating gravity wave in a cylindrical tank

Azimuthal solitary surface wave in cylindrical tank.

This Brief Report is devoted to the study of the solitary surface wave rotating in the azimuthal direction, arising during water drainage from a cylindrical reservoir, when shallow flow conditions are reached. The linear dependence between the wave speed and its amplitude is shown to be similar to that expected from the classical Korteweg-de Vries equation.

Adaptive Control of a Non-Cylindrical Tank

A conical tank in which the diameter changes with the tank height, allows the use of feedback control used in complex nonlinear systems, such as adaptive control. This project modified an existing system of two interacting tanks by inserting a removable solid cone into one of the tanks. This modification created two new nonlinear configurations, one of which had a discontinuity. Optimal control...

Capillary-gravity and capillary waves generated in a wind wave tank: observations and theories

Short water surface waves generated by wind in a water tunnel have been measured by an optical technique that provides a synoptic picture of the water surface gradient over an area of water surface (Zhang & Cox 1994). These images of the surface gradient can be integrated to recover the shape of the water surface and find the two-dimensional wavenumber spectrum. Waveforms and two-dimensional st...

Modulation of Microwave Backscatter by Gravity Waves in a Wave Tank

On the two-dimensional structure of short gravity waves in a wind wave tank