University of New South Wales researchers have created vortex generators that can reportedly reduce the operating solar module temperature by up to 2.5 C. They built two different prototypes ...

New research from Australia has shown that vortex generators and glass texturing have so far proved to be the most effective solutions among the novel methods explored for lowering the temperature ...

Beginning in 2015, JetBlue began taking delivery of new aircraft with vortex generators already installed. JetBlue is committing to add the devices to its 138 remaining Airbus A320 family aircraft ...

Russian researchers are refining the wing design for a proposed short-haul aircraft with overwing-mounted engines, to increase laminar flow. Initial models of the experimental aircraft design ...

The results demonstrate that vortex generators could improve the performance of wind turbines using the NREL airfoils by up to 4%. Having been in continuous publication since 1977, Wind Engineering is ...

Engineers in Sweden hope to improve the efficiency of trucks by using a novel electronic vortex generator to reduce drag.

Micro AeroDynamics says it was the first company in the world to make micro vortex generators for small general-aviation planes.

Canadian engineer Louis Michaud's Atmospheric Vortex Engine (AVE) creates a miniature tornado, generating electric power from the whirling air mass induced by industrial waste heat mixing with ...