2019.07.04

Flight Simulator

Finding the ideal wing shape through evolution

Nonideal wing shape generates vortices (visualized here with red dye) at its leading edge that interfere with trailing-edge vortices (green dye). Leif Ristroph Applied Mathematics Laboratory, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and New York University

Nonideal wing shape generates vortices (visualized here with red dye) at its leading edge that interfere with trailing-edge vortices (green dye). Leif Ristroph Applied Mathematics Laboratory, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and New York University

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