Ship model basin

An attempt basin is a with a liquid ( often water) filled basin, are carried out in the experiments or experiments. In the aquarium is, such a pool aquarium.

There are large pools where targeted currents and / or waves can be generated; they serve to explore the flow dynamics ( = fluid dynamics). In them different scale ship models are exposed to currents (English Ship model basin ); observing or measuring their water resistance.

Ludwig Prandtl in 1904 with a water channel for the visualization of flow processes.

Cavitation tunnel of the Laboratory of Hydraulics and shipbuilding in Berlin

Cavitating propeller in an experiment in ' David Taylor Model Basin '