Next generation aircraft aerodynamics are evolving through morphing wings and laminar flow technology, reducing drag, ...

The flow of all fluids, whether liquid or gas, will have one of three states: laminar, turbulent, and transitional. This article discusses flow principles and pressure-based flow measurement. Laminar ...

Fluid flow is laminar when viscous forces far exceed inertial forces. This condition holds in small-diameter channels (as used in microfluidics), because the low mass transport in these channels ...

The boundary layer, a tiny layer on the surface of a body in a flowing fluid, such as an airplane wing in the air, is of paramount importance for the future of flight. Just over 100 years ago, Ludwig ...

Benjamin Sanderse has received a major European grant to tackle a problem that defeats even supercomputers: reliably ...

This release is available in German. When a flow reaches a certain speed, things get turbulent: The fluid or the gas no longer flows in an orderly fashion but whirls around wildly. However, in ...

The aim is to make aviation in Europe climate-neutral by 2050. An important part of this is reducing the drag of future aircraft, with the wings playing a major role. The wings not only generate the ...