HR Wallingford new sate-of-the-art maritime simulation and modeling facilities, the Fast Flow Facility and the UK Ship Simulation Centre, will be formally opened by Lord Michael Heseltine at Howbery Business Park in Wallingford, Oxfordshire on 30 October.
The new Fast Flow Facility is one of the world’s largest and most sophisticated marine test facilities, and it is the only facility of its type in the UK. It is a 75 m long, 4 m wide dual-channel flume that can hold up to a million liters of water, generate 1 m high waves and produce tidal currents of up to 5 m3/s. The unique Fast Flow Facility will be used to investigate the way of waves, tides and sediments interact with the built environment.