These aerosols are carried by vortex rings—small donut-shaped bands of air—that transform the particles into short pulses of wind that convert ... the launcher's power. To do this, they ...

Williamson Brothers built 441 Vortex Turbines, selling one of the last to Sir William Armstrong at Cragside in Northumberland, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity.

A polar vortex collapse is expected to bring severe winter weather to Canada and the US mid-month. This event could also ...

Accurate measurements of atmospheric turbulence enable durable and efficient wind turbine design as well as optimized wind farm operation. To advance this, Vaisala participated in a research ...

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Share Bitter cold temperatures are expected to continue throughout the week in Chicago, with wind chills plunging ... is part of a polar vortex that has plunged ...

Dr. Ponta's area of expertise is in theoretical and computational continuum mechanics, vortex dynamics, and advanced numerical methods for fluid-structure interaction analysis; especially as they ...

University of New South Wales researchers have created vortex generators that can reportedly ... on the external surfaces of vehicles and wind turbine blades. These devices have also been applied ...