Aerospace Engineering Faces Six Grand Challenges That Will Define Flight’s Next Century
From AI-certified autonomy to scramjets and hydrogen propulsion, a new analysis maps the six technology frontiers that will decide the ...
Tag: aerodynamics
AI Learns to Predict the Moment of No Return in Climate and Flight Systems
A Caltech-led team has shown that a recurrent neural operator can forecast irreversible tipping points in climate and aerodynamic models ...
Synthetic Jets Trim a Station Wagon’s Drag—but Burn More Energy Than They Save
CFD simulations of a station wagon fitted with synthetic jet actuators show wake control can cut drag by about 1 ...
Glowing Paint Cuts Wind Tunnel Errors by a Quarter in Aircraft Design Leap
University of Manchester chemists and aerospace engineers have developed a pressure-sensitive paint that cuts temperature-related measurement errors in wind tunnel ...
Tiny Turbine, Big Crash: 1:100 Model Recreates the Moment a Wind Blade Tears Off
Researchers have built a 1:100 scaled wind turbine model designed to reproduce the aerodynamic, centrifugal, and gravitational load transients that ...
Nightjar wings reveal a trade-off between hunting slowly and travelling far
A Lund University wind tunnel study shows that the European nightjar's broad wings aid slow hunting flight but reduce lift ...
Simple Ring Deflector Boosts Thrust of Electric Ducted Fans for Air Taxis
Researchers report that a circumferential intake flow deflector raises net thrust by 2.32 percent and cuts torque by 2.83 percent ...
Machine Learning Takes Flight: Designing Drone Wings for Mars’s Thin Air
Researchers at UPES Dehradun have combined CFD simulations with machine learning, including a physics-guided neural network, to rapidly optimize drone ...
Bird Nostrils Inspire Pressure Sensors That Let Drones Ride Wakes Like Geese
A wind-tunnel study shows that a bird-nostril-inspired pair of pressure sensors, combined with spanwise pressure taps, lets a follower aircraft ...
Pressurized wind tunnel experiments reveal how to squeeze more power from wind farms
Pressurized wind tunnel experiments have allowed researchers to simulate full-scale atmospheric conditions and identify control strategies that could add tens ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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