"A 2.5 meter tsunami is generated in a man-made channel at the Port and Airport Research Institute in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on June 29. The institute developed the 5-meter-deep concrete water tank measuring 184 meters long and 3.5 meters wide to help unravel the destructive mechanism of tsunamis." (via we-make-money-not-art)
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As far as Japanese simulations of the earth and its various climatological and tectonic effects go, check out: http://www.time.com/time/2002/inventions/rob_earth.html
Old news, but still a bit nuts, frankly. Or a bit Heideggerian, I should say. Still a bit Heideggerian.
Meanwhile, there's Kamran Mohseni's "vortex dynamics" lab in Colorado, where he works on nano-fluidics: http://enstrophy.colorado.edu/~mohseni/VortexDynamics1.html
That's just in case overall aquatic experimentation interests anyone out there – or if, perhaps, you have a mini-Manuel De Landa stored somewhere inside.
Finally, here's a rockin' PDF for the hardcore: http://enstrophy.colorado.edu/~mohseni/NewScientistArticle23October2004.pdf
Nice images!
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