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Videos
You can see a lot of our work described in the following three narrated videos which we have up-loaded to YouTube:
Making Waves (1984)
1. Introduction 2. Narrow Tank 3. Wide Tank 4. Paddles 5. Absorption 6. Extreme Waves (7. Credits)
Edinburgh Wave Power Group 'Archive' with commentary by Stephen Salter
1. Narrow tank introduction 2. Surging-heaving rig 3. Freak wave 4. Robert Clerk pump 5. Wide Tank - A 6. Wide Tank - B 7. Long spine model construction 8. Long spine model in the wide tank 9. Duck string in the wide tank 10. Full-scale Duck costs
Power for Change (2000) with commentary by Jamie Taylor
1. Introduction 2. The Duck wave energy device 3. Intelligent Power - the development of digital hydraulics 4. The Dervish - a machine for clearing anti-personnel mines 5. Wide Tank - absorbing wavemakers and directional seas 6. Variable-pitch air-turbine 7. Bladders & seals 8. Sloped IPS Buoy 9. Force-based ship towing trials 10. Ship capsize tests 11. Wind turbine blade damper 12. Water bag demolition control (13. Credits)
(If you would like a single DVD comprising all of the above sequences, please contact Jamie.Taylor@ed.ac.uk )
Miscellaneous
1. Desalination Duck tests in the Curved Tank 2. 'Surf' wave in Edinburgh Wide Tank 3. Flow Table