Engineering
Deep learning tools have revolutionized aerodynamic engineering for planes, cars and ships, enabling these vehicles to be more fuel efficient and structurally refined. A new computational model pushes the science of reproducing ...
Mar 5, 2024
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Engineering
A team of mechanical engineers at Ecole Centrale de Lyon has found that long-distance runners using pacers to reduce drag can improve their run times by running in particular formations. In their study, reported in the journal ...
Engineering
To hit international climate targets, the carbon emissions from shipping must be reduced by more than 50% by 2050 compared to 2008 levels. As much as 99% of global shipping is currently dependent on fossil fuels. Even though ...
Apr 4, 2023
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Software
The approach to an airport runway is a real challenge for pilots: reducing speed, extending flaps and speed brakes and much more—all with as little noise and fuel consumption as possible. Moreover, air traffic control restricts ...
Oct 6, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
More and more buses in the Netherlands are electric. By now, about 80% of all new buses are powered by an electric motor. Good news for the climate, you might say. But there is a problem: because it is often difficult to ...
Jul 8, 2022
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Automotive
Reshaping the exterior of heavy vehicles, such as semitrucks, so that they are aerodynamically integrated along their entire length in a smooth, continuous fashion could reduce drag, increase fuel efficiency and cut carbon ...
Jul 2, 2021
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Robotics
From lizards to kangaroos, many animals with tails possess an agility that allows them to turn or self-right after a foot slip. Cheetahs demonstrate tremendous precision and maneuverability at high speeds due, in part, to ...
Apr 19, 2021
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Robotics
It is a high-speed movement: within fractions of a second the mouthparts of the dragonfly larvae spring forwards to seize its prey. For decades, researchers had assumed that this action must have been driven primarily by ...
Jan 21, 2021
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Engineering
Future aerial design may owe a nod of thanks to five parrotlets flapping around in an instrumented flight chamber at Stanford University. They revealed that counter to conventional understanding of how animals and planes ...
Nov 25, 2019
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Sailing used to be considered as a rather sedate pastime. But in the past few years, the world of yacht racing has been revolutionised by the arrival of hydrofoil-supported catamarans, known as "foilers". These vessels, more ...
Sep 19, 2019
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