Hartzell Propeller will provide China's Hafei Aviation Industry with a four-bladed lightweight series turbine propeller system. The 96-inch propellers will be installed on the Y12E aircraft, the ...
The Cessna 206 series has received FAA Supplemental Type Certification (STC) for a new five-blade MT-Propeller, which also reduces the maximum propeller RPM to 1,900. This new composite propeller ...
When comparing the efficiency of different wind turbine blade designs, [AdamEnt] found using a hair dryer wasn’t the best tool for the job. Enter his new 3D-printed wind tunnel. After several ...
A run-of-river hydro project on the St. Joseph River in downtown South Bend, Indiana, spearheaded by the University of Notre Dame, was one of the first ever in the U.S. to utilize the StreamDiver ...
The now-familiar sight of traditional propeller wind turbines could be replaced in the future with wind farms containing more compact and efficient vertical turbines. New research from Oxford Brookes ...
Scientists in Australia have proposed to use a a propeller pico-hydropower turbine to recover the energy used for pumping water in a solar-powered commercial building. They have found that the mini ...
The blades of propellers and wind turbines are designed based on aerodynamics principles that were first described mathematically more than a century ago. But engineers have long realized that these ...
On the Flow of Water through Turbines, by Arthur Rigg, President of the Society of Engineers, London.—After remarking that a strict adherence to the older accepted rules of design never produces ...