Whale-Inspired Ocean Turbine Blades
Monday, November 22, 2010 - 15:32
in Earth & Climate
Lessons learned from the ocean's largest mammals have inspired United States Naval Academy researchers to tackle one of the serious design challenges facing a technology that uses underwater turbines to convert ocean tides into electricity -- work present today at the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) meeting in Long Beach, CA.