All Articles Tagged As: fluid dynamics
Lessons learned from the ocean's largest mammals have inspired United States Naval Academy researchers to tackle one of the serious design challenges facing a technology that uses underwater turbines to convert ocean tides into electricity -- work present today at the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) meeting in Long Beach, Calif.
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 | The quest to derive energy from wind may soon be getting some help from Caltech fluid-dynamics expert John Dabiri -- and a school of fish. ...> Full Article |
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