Instrument for Measuring Water Waves

Whittenbury, Clive G.; Huber, E. A.; Newell, Geraldine S.

doi:10.1063/1.1716720

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“…Wave parameters are usually inferred from data collected employing either capacitive or resistive Eulerian probes (see, e.g., in [7]) characterized by simple operating principles and easy-to-build supporting frames. They are mainly used because they allow a reliable measure of the free surface elevation in a Eulerian reference frame and also for their relative simplicity.…”

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A Sterescopic System to Measure Water Waves in Laboratories

et al. 2020

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A new system for estimating the synthetic parameters of sea states during physical investigations has been implemented. The technique proposed herein is based on stereographic analysis of digital images acquired with optical sensors. A series of ad hoc floating markers has been made and properly moored to the bottom of a large wave tank to estimate the synthetic parameters of generated waves. The implemented acquisition system and the proposed algorithm provide automatic recognition of all markers by a pair of optical sensors that synchronously captures their instantaneous location and tracks their movements over time. After transformation from the image to the real-world coordinates, water surface elevation time series have been obtained. Several experimental tests have been carried out to assess the feasibility and reliability of the proposed approach. The estimated wave synthetic parameters have been then compared with those obtained by employing standard resistive probes. The deviation were found to be equal to ~6% for the significant wave height and 1% for peak, mean, and significant wave periods.

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