The channel 1 of the rectangular form the walls of which are made of transparent material is filled with water 2. The water surface is covered with flexible magnetic sensitive film 3. The movable slider 5, with the permanent magnet 6 inside, leans on the walls of the channel 1. For visualization of direction of water motion the revolving indicator 7 is placed in a cross section of the channel.
The device works as follows. If to move the slider 5 along the channel 1, for example from right to left its ends, having begun this movement outside the right border of the channel and having finished it outside the left border, it will be generated the surface convex forced wave which travels along the channel from right to left end of channel and at the left end the wave is destructed (disappeared). It can be noted that the revolving indicator 7 during formation and destruction of the wave rotates in the same direction, pointing out the direction of flow of water from left to right.(in the animation the direction of rotation of indicator and water flow are pointed by the appearing arrows).
This experiment shows that the convex surface wave which periodically travels in the same direction in the channel of restricted length does transport the water along the channel in the direction of the wave travelling and, as the consequence of such transportation of water the opposite directed compensatory currents are generated in the channel. It is obviously that during the time of one passage of the wave the volume of water which crosses an arbitrary fixed section X-X of the channel is equal to the volume of the wave's crest.
It is easy to conclude that the results of this experiment will not change if the channel will be of arbitrary lager in length, deep or width, or if the bottom of the channel will be of any arbitrary curve form. So the results will be the same for the different sizes and forms of the wave and for different velocities of the wave travelling along the basin.
Basing on results of this experiment we have all arguments to say that this laboratory device in its main water transportation properties reflects the main kinematic and water transportation regularities of the tidal wave model of interaction between the Ocean and the Moon [1, 2]. It is known that the dome-like tidal waves travel westward in the tropical belt of the three oceans (Atlantic, Pacific, Indian), at that the maximum of the dome-like waves is moving along parallel to the equator trajectories. Because the tidal wave moves in a bounded reservoir (ocean) this wave is born (formed) at the beginning of its path (this is the outer eastern region of the ocean), moves toward the end of its path (this is the outer western part of the ocean), where it collapses on meeting the shoreline.
In [1 - 3] it is described the model according which the travelling tidal convex waves on the surface of each ocean transfer some thousands cubic kilometers of water per day from the east part of the tropic belt region of the ocean to its west part and that this wave masstransfer of water from the east to west regions of the oceans is the main generator of the large-scale ocean currents. According to this model the all others large-scale ocean currents are gradient returning streams of water from the west to east ocean's regions. The main features and general structure of the large-scale ocean currents roughly confirm this hypothesis [4, 5].
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