Sentences with phrase «for airplane wings»

Scientists increase the resolution of so - called topology optimization to improve design capabilities for airplane wings and more.

Not exact matches

These could make it more expensive for U.S. manufacturers that source parts from the country, including, say, airplane wings or electronics, with some suggesting that companies ultimately will pass the costs down to the consumer.

The initial duty in applied science, research, or teaching is to do the job well: to design an airplane wing that will hold under stress, to find a valid equation for chemical equilibrium, or to help students gain sound understanding of metabolism.

Keep your eyes peeled for such items as an airplane wing, flight attendant, and peanuts.

The seven - minute video was released by the media wing of Isis's Aleppo «province», and praised the «lion fighters» of the militant group's branch in Sinai for «bringing down a Russian airplane».

Fixed - wing (airplane - style) drones like the Predator can carry much more weight for their size than rotary - wing (helicopter - style) drones, but can't hover to get a good close - up look at objects of interest, nor could they easily hand off a taco, and they need a runwaylike surface to land.

Already, the bridge's novel design, with a deck shaped like an airplane wing, is being used as a template for future bridges across the Strait of Gibraltar and the Bering Strait.

Their technique, published June 23 in the journal Chaos, from AIP Publishing, could also be useful in other fluid dynamic analyses — for example, when studying unsteady vortices detaching from the wing of an airplane.

Whether it's monitoring the integrity of buildings during earthquakes or airplane wings during flight, so - called strain sensors are getting more and more important for our safety.

Engineers can calculate the maximum stiffness of a given material in a given shape; for instance, they know how to give airplane wings their maximum strength using a given alloy.

The force coefficients generated by the wing are «about two to three times greater than a static airfoil wing used for large airplanes,» said Kamal Viswanath, a co-author who was a graduate research assistant working with Tafti when the work was performed and is now a research engineer at the U.S. Naval Research Lab's Laboratories for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics.

In any case, the findings are still in their earliest stages, and it might take two or three years before the ideas for a quieter airplane wing are tested with a small model in a wind tunnel, Jaworski said.

Yet a few companies have kept at it: Woburn, Mass. — based Terrafugia, for example, has since 2006 been developing Transition, a «roadable aircraft» that resembles a small airplane that can fold its wings and drive on roads.

For example, conventional X-rays can't see a defect called a grafoil in the laminate layers of an airplane wing without removing the protective copper mesh that diffuses energy if lightning hits the plane.

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This technology might find use as an active camouflage fabric that can change its reflectance as desired or as a mechanism for making «riblets» that improve the aerodynamic drag characteristics of airplane wings [see box on opposite page].

/ Superconductors and metallic glasses / Semiconductors and bronzes and brasses / Fiber composites for strong airplane wings / These are a few of my favorite things.

For instance, it might be used to help design a better airplane wing.

Shoehorned into a coach seat over the wing of one of those airplanes that seats about a hundred people, I quaffed my Pepsi with the quick rabbit - swallows necessitated by the tiny plastic cup they offer to the undesirables, and thought about the wisdom of Focus Features deciding to fly me from Denver to The Four Seasons in Beverly Hills to attend the junket for Charlie Kaufman's bittersweet Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Line observed as the students dragged images of matching plane parts together — yellow wings with yellow engines, for example — to «build» the largest number of airplanes in the shortest period of time.

The all - new Sedona also offers the choice of second row «First Class» lounge seating that can be positioned rearward for astonishing legroom and provides retractable lower - leg rests2 and airplane - style winged headrests.

Whether you buy a ticket on a helicopter or a fixed - wing airplane, the view from above will give you a new appreciation for the island's natural wonders.

They instead offer a reduced posture, literary and poetic, through edited content that opens narrative: a bulging curve acts as a burial mound or slice of an airplane wing, at once becoming both aeronautics and religion, while the piece adjacent has a perfectly removed rectangle stacked on top, a Mono - Ha movement, forming a tiered pavilion or possibly an Atari invader (Untitled, 2014 for both).

As for having issues returning, I have only encountered it once when a cashier questioned the object as (a metal airplane desktop decoration) that I cut off its wings and tail and torched it.

Researchers successfully built and flew a flapping - wing - powered swallowtail butterfly, which could have big implications for the field of aerodynamics - after all we saw those videos of early airplanes that attempted to fly by flapping wings and they sure didn't work.

60 Wind Generation Historically Small wind turbines used for Wind Generation Historically Small wind turbines used for agriculture use — pump water Provide electrical needs for isolated homes Extracts ~ 3 kW of power with wind vanes no larger than 1m long Modern Wind turbines with vanes larger than 50 m can extract megawatts of power from the wind Blades designed to function similar to airplane wings utilizing lift created by the wind flowing over the surface to turn the blades — more efficient Turbines mounted on tall towers or at sea can take advantage of higher winds.

Finally, modeling an airplane wing is much, much, much simpler than modeling the climate for three huge reasons: equilibrium, knowledge of variables and conditions, and complexity.

Because of this, N - S approximations which are perfectly adequate for modeling an airplane wing fail miserably when confronted with the ugly reality of climate.

I am giving specific examples of something much simpler than a climate - an airplane wing, and showing that it specifically does not work, and you keep saying the models work for the atmosphere.