The stars of the "Jaws" films--sharks--have recently become the subject of a new engineering research project. The project explores energy conservation and boundary layer control in regard to a ...

A typical challenge for re-entry vehicles during flight is an effective control of hypersonic transition and the laminar/turbulent state of the boundary layer. The state of the boundary layer is of ...

NASA's Quiet Short-Haul Research Aircraft (QSRA) was a modified de Havilland Canada C-8A Buffalo designed to explore the feasibility of quieter, shorter-runway aircraft for inner-city airports ...

Turbulence makes many people uneasy or downright queasy. And it's given researchers a headache, too. Mathematicians have been trying for a century or more to understand the turbulence that arises when ...

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