Facilities in the Coastal, Ocean and Sediment Transport (COAST) laboratory

State of the art facilities housed within the COAST Laboratory
COAST lab
The Coastal, Ocean and Sediment Transport (COAST) laboratory offers world class test facilities including an ocean basin, a coastal basin, two wave and current flumes (35m and 20m), a light fluids teaching area as well as various small flumes and tanks.  

Ocean basin, COAST Lab Ocean Basin
 The Ocean Basin is a unique facility that allows waves and currents to be generated at any relative orientation and can be run at different water depths.

UK Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Test (UK FOWTT) facility UK Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Test (UK FOWTT) facility
 The first-of-its-kind facility within the UK, that enables physical modelling experiments with wind, wave, and currents simultaneously

COAST Lab - 1315878 Coastal Basin Coastal Basin
 The Coastal Basin allows sediment transport and coastal structures to be studied at scale in a controlled environment

COAST Lab - 1409590 20m Tilting Flume Wave and current flumes
 The lab comprises two wave and current flumes: a 35m flume and a 20m flume with the capability to be tilted.

COAST Laboratory Instrumentation COAST laboratory
 The COAST lab boasts a large range of instrumentation as well as data acquisition hardware and software

 
Marine Building, Plymouth