Static pipeline wave created - A surfers never ending perfect barrel

07/22/2013 - 00:00

Scientists at the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) and the University of California - San Diego (UC San Diego) have created, in a laboratory, a static pipeline wave, with a crest that moves neither forward nor backward. This research will allow improvement in boat and seaport designs and will enable analysis of how carbon dioxide exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere occurs. 

“A wave is a deformation in the surface of a liquid that moves at a speed that is independent of that liquid,” the researchers explain. 

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