Coastal, Ocean and Hydraulic Lab
The Coastal, Ocean, and Hydraulic Laboratory provides a unique combination of medium-sized water tanks capable of generating waves and currents, together with excellent facilities to manufacture test models of various size and measure their behaviour in the water. These capabilities enable cutting-edge marine research and development, together with hands-on educational experiences for the next generation of engineers.
The tanks and measurement equipment available in the Coastal, Ocean and Hydraulic Lab are very important for the technological development of marine technologies.
The facilities are used for both fundamental studies of basic flow processes, and the development of new applied technologies, often in close collaboration with industrial partners.
Examples of topics analysed in the laboratory:
- Wave interaction with porous structures, breakwaters and reefs
- Scour development around coastal and marine structures
- Wave kinematics and forces on structures
- Sand bar development under wave action
- Micro plastic spreading in the coastal zone
- Wave boundary layers and turbulence
- Still-water ship resistance
- Efficiency of wave energy devices
List of facilities:
- Wave flume 1 is 25 m long, 0.6 m wide and 0.8 m high. It can accommodate a water depth of up to 0.6 m and waves with a height up to around 0.2 m. It includes a pit for analysing interactions between structures and the seabed.
- Wave flume 2 is 28 m long, 4 m wide, and 1 m high. The wave height can be up to around 0.25 m. The facility also includes a pit , and it can generate a current up to a maximum flow rate of 2 m3/s.
- Wave flume 3 is a wave -current flume that is 28 m long, 0.6 m wide and 0.8 m high. It can run waves of similar size to flume 1 but has additionally the possibility of running a current with or without waves. The maximum current flow rate is 0.5 m3/s.
- Flume 5 is a large current flume that is 35 m long, 3 m wide, and 1 m high. It can run a current flow rate of up to 1.5 m3/s. It is also equipped with a model carriage for large-period wave simulations and resistance of ships, bridge piers and other ocean structures.
- Flume 6 is a smaller current flume 23 m long, 2 m wide, 0.5 m high with current flow rates of up to 0.5 m3/s.
- A wave basin 23 m by 12 m that can also generate currents.
- Several smaller facilities such as a tilting flume, oscillating water tunnel, and rotating circular flume.
- A flexible teaching area in the main laboratory, with a large whiteboard and projector.
- A shared office space with a printer.
Contact
Erik Damgaard Christensen Head of Section, Professor Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering Phone: +45 45251398 edch@dtu.dk
Contact
Robert William Read Senior Researcher Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering Phone: +45 45251376 rrea@dtu.dk