Located in the 14,225 SF Coastal Engineering Building of University of North Carolina Wilmington, the 2,400 SF Wave Flume Lab provides a hands-on learning center for students of UNCW’s new Coastal Engineering degree program. The 24-meter wave flume enables coastal and ocean engineering studies of real-world problems involving waves and the transport of sand, such as the naturally occurring beach erosion-recovery cycles on barrier islands. Other potential areas of research to be enabled by the wave lab include wave-structure interaction.
