For the first time, engineers at MIT have developed a comprehensive, physics-based model that accurately represents the airflow around rotors even under extreme conditions. The new model enables the ...

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Mulling a problem with the positioning of wind turbines and the production decrease resulting from the turbulence within wind farms, the question has arisen whether they will ever be as valuable a ...

Arkansas has no wind farms, but at least three are in the construction or planning stages. They include two in the Delta -- Crossover Wind near Wynne in Cross County and Long Grain Wind near Marion in ...

In the past, when designing the profile of rotor blades, the layout of wind turbines in a farm, or the day-to-day operation of wind turbines, engineers have relied on ad hoc adjustments added to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BYU students work on a scale model turbine for a national competition. The group of 40 BYU students is hard at work designing ...