The Drappner Wave in a Laboratory Environment

It's very difficult to create out there in the ocean waves you want. In fact, you cannot. You have to wait for the wind. So we make them ourselves. And these experiments were done at the FlowWave Ocean Energy Research Facility at the University of Edinburgh. The facility was quite unique because it's a round pool and all of the side walls consist of individual wave makers. There are 164 individual wave makers around this pool. We can control them in any way we like so we can make waves coming from different directions.