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Flow Simulation of a Maple Seed and Engineering Designs

Friday, November 7, 2014
Plaza Foyer (Sheraton)
Thomas Caley , University of Cincinnati
This program examines recent undergraduate research that involved modeling a falling maple seed. The research examined how maple seeds generate energy from the wind and how their design could help engineers improve the efficiency of wind turbines and emerging technologies such as monocopters and aerospace decelerators.