Earth & Environment - Tuesday, May 18, 2010 12:30 - 5 Comments

Wind farm design inspired by school of fish

CALTECH (US)—In current wind farms, all of the turbines rotate in the same direction. But while studying the vortices left behind by fish swimming in a school, fluid-dynamics expert John Dabiri noticed that some vortices rotated clockwise, while others rotated counter-clockwise. Continue…