Farms dotted with the gigantic spinning blades of wind turbines have become a standard sight on long-distance road trips, but what if there was another way to capture energy from the wind? A startup ...

With all the concentrated efforts toward achieving cleaner energy, a Spanish startup aims to reinvent wind turbines. Better said, it aims to offer an alternative to traditional wind farms, much like ...

Could a bladeless wind turbine answer the issues with clean energy and save a few bird lives in the process? It can if you believe that the same technology we use to get your milkshake to your mouth ...

Although current climate models brand wind energy as “sustainable energy,” contemporary wind turbine design does not favor wide scale proliferation. Simply put, turbines are extremely noisy, massive, ...

Vortex Bladeless uses a radically new approach to capturing wind energy. The device captures the energy of vorticity, an aerodynamic effect that has plagued structural engineers and architects for ...

Vortex Bladeless (Boston, MA, US) believes that wind energy could use an extreme makeover. Instead of capturing energy via the rotational motion of a turbine, the company has developed a wind ...

In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World writes that HPC simulation provides a platform to develop advancements in energy generation technologies. Through the use of ...

Picture a long, white rod. The rod has a smooth, curved head. Is your heart rate speeding up? The rod is undulating at a quick but steady pace. It’s moving back and forth. Are you sweating? Now ...

The 3-D Vortex Dipole method is used to simulate unsteady flows around Horizontal Wind Turbines (HAWT). The numerical scheme involves Inviscid Flow assumptions applied to impulsive motion of this ...

This paper describes the formulation of a new model for the wake of a horizontal-axis wind turbine. As in many other models, the trailing vorticity is represented by a number of vortex lines which ...