Sentences with phrase «test tank»

The tests involved controlled burns of oil in a specially designed test tank on the island.

White and black histogram bars indicate average percent time spent on white or black side of test tank.

Batalama and Pados will evaluate and test the performance of their technique (range, accuracy, and data throughput) first in a 30 - foot - deep acoustic test tank at FAU, and then in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Dania Beach at FAU's Institute for Ocean and Systems Engineering (SeaTech).

Mr. Philip Rhodes, a naval architect for 36 years, had already figured it out, even though the boat so far was nothing more than a set of drawings and a three - foot model fixed to a towing carriage in Stevens» 106 - foot - by -9-foot testing tank.

A comparison with wave and ship motion, for a ship moored on two anchors, has been set up in a small test tank, which is also used for public demonstrations.

The model has been validated through laboratory experiments on a human - made freak or rogue wave (the so - called «soliton splash») using test tanks.

When placed in a half - white / half - black test tank, sighted animals swim to and remain on the white side.

Adjust carburetor mixtures, electrical point settings, or timing while motors are running in water - filled test tanks.

We've fired it for 100 seconds — it could fire much longer than 100 seconds, that's just the size of the test tanks.

Allan Murray, assistant director of Stevens» testing tanks, had been doing this sort of thing since the days when Harold S. Vanderbilt brought in early models of the Cup Defender Ranger, whose scaled - down hull still hangs above the Number One tank.

The other day the problem at Stevens» Number One testing tank was a bit more prosaic.

A tiny wind turbine in a test tank at Teddington, Middlesex, could hold the key to wind power's most difficult public relations problem: making this form of renewable energy environmentally acceptable to all.

As the temperature and acidity of a test tank climb, diatoms that dominate the cold northern oceans fall off steeply in number — an ominous sign, given that they currently support by far the richest fisheries in the world.

At a test tank in Ottawa, Canada, engineers experiment with a fire - resistant barrier that can contain the oil.

Longer than two football fields and filled with 2.6 million gallons of salt water, this test tank in Leonardo, New Jersey, allows scientists to re-create nearly all the conditions of a spill.

An age - matched control and the animal with one induced eye both showed strong white background preference, spending 89 % ± 6 % and 88 % ± 4 % of swimming time on the white side of the test tank, respectively (Figure 6C and 6D).

In this work, we integrate these two forms of movements in a robotic fish that propels itself through a carangiform / subcarangiform body undulation to freely swim in a test tank.

The spatial preference of live fish in the test tank suggests that, beyond the visual cues offered by the robot, flow cues play an important role in shaping fish - robot interactions.

Notably, the time spent in the focal compartments of the test tank was analyzed in both the Top and Side views for both the prototypes, that is, two separate analyses were considered for the Gray robot and the Red robot, respectively, in relation to the Top and Side views.

This similarity was only observed in the middle compartment of the test tank behind the robotic fish, see Figure 5.

He will gladly talk at length and spend time showing you how to thoroughly service your regulator or test tanks.

We launched SeaVax in our test tank and filtered plastic from the water with our proof of concept model.