Benchtop wind tunnels adhere to the general principles of wind tunnel design, namely controlled air flow, low turbulence, flow accuracy, and repeatability, but use these fundamental properties for ...

We've rounded up five architecture and design competitions with upcoming submission deadlines within the next two months.

Designer Joe Doucet has revealed his Airiva turbine – a modular wind power system that was conceived to have the necessary visual appeal to fit into urban settings.

These, and the entire exterior design, were modelled in a wind tunnel at Ryerson University’s Department of Architectural Science, with the help of professor Ramani Ramakrishnan, to “figure ...

Wind Engineering, Vol. 40, No. 5, Selected papers from OWEMES 2015: Offshore wind and other marine renewable energies in Mediterranean and European Seas (October 2016), pp. 468-474 (7 pages) Abstract ...

A high Reynolds-number Mach-6 wind-tunnel nozzle has been designed for a new quiet-flow Ludwieg tube. The quiet-flow nozzle is designed to maintain laminar boundary layers on the nozzle walls as far ...

The winners of the German Design Awards 2023 approach design in ways that are both clever and sustainable, with a focus on ground-breaking product solutions.

Muz Yer, a permanent public exhibition in Rennes, France, has invited 8 internationally-renowned architects to design birdhouses that highlight the relationship between contemporary architecture ...