Wave Pool Hull and Reverse Current for Stronger Multi-Wave Generation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing wave pool technologies generate waves inefficiently, requiring large pool sizes to create multiple waves simultaneously, leading to high costs and reduced user experience due to limited wave formation and strength.
Innovation Solution
A wave-generating apparatus featuring a circular pool with a deeper central area and a moveable hull-like body, utilizing impeller means such as jets or propellers to create a reverse current, which enhances wave formation and strength by offsetting the hull's movement current, allowing for multiple waves in a smaller pool.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If air or fluid impulses are used to create waves, then waves can be generated, but the pool size must be large to create multiple waves simultaneously
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs hydraulic principles by using a current-generating structure that creates water currents to propel waves. The structure generates a current that moves in the same direction as the wave, maintaining wave momentum and enabling continuous wave generation in a compact pool area, thus resolving the contradiction between wave generation efficiency and pool size
Solution Approach 2:
The current-generating structure is designed to be moveable relative to the pool, allowing dynamic adjustment of current generation. This enables the system to create multiple waves simultaneously in a smaller area by dynamically controlling the current flow to match and enhance wave motion, improving productivity without requiring a large pool
2Strength
If known wave-generating structures are used, then waves are created, but wave strength and momentum are limited
Solution Approach 1:
By utilizing hydraulic current generation instead of complex mechanical wave-generating structures, the patent achieves stronger waves with greater momentum. The current-generating structure creates a flowing current that continuously propels waves, enhancing wave strength without requiring complex mechanical mechanisms
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical wave-generating structures with a current-based system. Instead of using complex mechanical impellers or moving parts to directly create waves, the system generates a water current that naturally propels waves, simplifying the device while increasing wave strength and momentum
3Productivity
If multiple waves are generated simultaneously, then user experience improves, but pool size and installation costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The moveable current-generating structure enables dynamic control of wave generation in different pool areas. By relocating the structure, multiple waves can be generated simultaneously in a compact space, improving wave formation frequency without increasing land use
Solution Approach 2:
The hydraulic current generation system allows for concentrated energy delivery in a small area, enabling multiple strong waves to form simultaneously without requiring a large pool footprint, thus improving productivity while minimizing land use
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution enables the generation of multiple waves in a smaller pool, increasing user experience with more frequent and powerful waves, while reducing installation costs and land use, as the reverse current maintains wave momentum and steepens wave faces, allowing longer rides.
Implementation Method 1
impeller means which generate a current in the water in a direction opposite to the direction of movement of the at least one body
Implementation Method 2
at least one body having a wave-generating shaped surface within the pool adjacent the pool edge and moveable relative thereto to generate a wave in water in the pool
Data Source
AI summary
The wave-generating apparatus in accordance with the invention has a pool (11) having a deeper area (12) surrounding a substantially central area (13); a pool edge (15) bounding the pool; a body (16) having a wave-generating shaped surface (22) located within the pool adjacent the pool edge and moveable along the pool edge relative thereto to generate a wave (17) in the water in the pool, and impeller means (18) generating a current in the water in a direction opposite to the direction of movement of the body.