When in 1922, after the great economic depression, the ship building industry recovered, the first towing tank was built.

The towing tank also serves to determine the maneuvering behaviour in model scale.

Ice tanks may take the form of either a towing tank or maneuvering basin.

Taylor is best known as the man who constructed the first experimental towing tank ever built in the United States.

Many research workers, hydraulics specialists and engineers have used scale models for over a century, in particular in towing tanks.

It can be used instead of Rotating Arm Test where towing tank facilities are longer and narrower.

The design had showed promise in a towing tank and when it was tried off San Diego on two 33-foot Hobie production sailboats.

But the towing tank at Stevens Institute of Technology is far larger than a recreational pool - it's longer than a football field.

Other notable campus facilities include a pressurized wind tunnel and a towing tank for testing ship and ocean structure designs.

On 9 May 1932 the NSP was officially opened, disposing of one towing tank, a model production facility.

The hydrodynamic test facilities present at a model basin site include at least a towing tank and a cavitation tunnel and workshops.

During his time at Caltech he has also contributed to the field of naval architecture and been involved in the International Towing Tank Conferences.

The velocity-dependent derivatives Yv and Nv of the ship at any draft and trim can be determined from the model test carried in towing tank.

It measures the rotary derivatives Yr and Nr on the model, a special type of towing tank and apparatus called a rotating-arm facility.

After the Towing Tank (today's Deepwater Tank) was filled with water, the first towing tests were carried out.

An ice tank is used to develop ice breaking vessels, this tank fulfills similar purposes as the towing tank does for open water vessels.

Using computers, towing tanks, and other scientific tools, Stephens and other technicians in the United States and Britain worked to identify why a boat capsizes.

The high-speed linear towing tank facility was recently renovated, and was officially rededicated in December 2006, as the highlight of a model testing conference hosted at Stevens.

The Davidson towing tank was heavily subsidized by the Navy and was bigger than any Navy or Allied test tank in existence.

A towing tank is a basin, several metres wide and hundreds of metres long, equipped with a towing carriage that runs on two rails on either side.

The ship model basins worldwide are organized in the ITTC [1] (International Towing Tank Conference) to standardize their model test procedures.

Kenneth S. M. Davidson was a Mechanical Engineering professor at Stevens Institute of Technology who helped create the Davidson Towing Tank at the institution.

Modern low-cost digital computers and dedicated software, combined with extensive research to correlate full-scale, towing tank and computational data, have enabled naval architects to more accurately predict the performance of a marine vehicle.

This is a test facility that is wide enough to investigate arbitrary angles between waves and the ship model, and to perform maneuvers like turning circles, for which the towing tank is too narrow.

Rear Admiral David W. Taylor, USN, Chief Constructor of the Navy during World War I, and builder of the United States' first experimental warship towing tank.