Water channel

Water channel may refer to:

• Strait, a naturally formed, narrow waterway
• Channel (geography), a landform consisting of the outline of the path of a narrow body of water
• Canal, a man-made channel for water
• Aquaporin, a cellular membrane structure that selectively passes water
• An experimental tank
  • Ship model basin, used in naval architecture to study the behaviour of sea vessels
  • Water tunnel (hydrodynamic), used to study hydraulic flow
  • Wave tank, a laboratory setup for observing the behavior of surface waves (also called: wave flume)
  • Ripple tank, a shallow glass tank of water used in schools and colleges to demonstrate the basic properties of waves