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

State of the art facilities housed within the COAST Laboratory
The UK Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Test (UK FOWTT) facility is now operational within the University’s Coastal, Ocean and Sediment Transport (COAST) Laboratory.
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