The flagship demonstration under Europe’s Clean Sky civil aeronautics research program is entering the hardware stage, aiming for first flight of the Airbus A340-300-based laminar flow wing ...

Painstaking assembly of ultrasmooth wing sections for Europe’s Airbus A340-based natural laminar flow demonstrator is set to start as the first structural components begin arriving at Aernnova in ...

The partners are testing two wing changes to evaluate their respective efficiency Airbus and partners in the Blade initiative are using the A340 prototype to test two wing designs that have the ...

We aren’t sure if [Joshua Bellamy] is serious that he wants a laminar flow to water his plants, but there are many places where having a smooth and predictable flow of water is useful or even ...

There are two main types of fluid flow - laminar flow, in which the fluid flows smoothly in layers, and turbulent flow, which is characterised by chaotic motion and large amounts of mixing. In this ...

Nature does not allow us to increase the size of a system without eventually losing coherence. For example, although a coherent laminar flow through a pipe is always linearly stable, increasing the ...

We aren’t sure if [Joshua Bellamy] is serious that he wants a laminar flow to water his plants, but there are many places where having a smooth and predictable flow of water is useful or even ...

Until now it had been assumed that, once a flow of a fluid has become turbulent, turbulence would persist. Researchers have now shown that this is not the case. In their experiments they managed to ...