Those sleek little fins actually have a purpose, and they’re called vortex generators. Vortex generators are small, fin-like attachments typically installed on a car’s roof or other surfaces t ...

Although the compressed air vortex generator was significantly more efficient than its counterpart, their work revealed that both prototypes had an effective range of nearly 2 meters, or about 6.5 ...

Scientists from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia have used rectangular vortex generators (VGs) as a passive cooling technique for photovoltaic panels and have found they can ...