These spirals you see on plane engines are, in fact, for more than just for looks - they serve a very important purpose.

If that plain old wood-and-whatever ceiling fan in your living room isn’t quite generating enough airflow for your liking, perhaps you’d consider a jet engine instead. Well, maybe not an ...

Faster than that, aerodynamic drag created by the large fans that aren't optimized for ... My company Astro Mechanica has invented a new kind of jet engine. Unlike any existing engine, it's ...

Afterburning turbofan engines ignite spectacular power, giving supersonic speeds and incredible agility to today’s fighter ...

The Indian Air Force (IAF) operates one of the largest Su-30MKI fleets in the world, and together with Indian defence ...

GE Aerospace engineers previously used exascale computing to model the performance and noise levels of Open Fan engine components. Open Fan architecture involves a new design of jet engines By ...

A self-propagating series of explosions, contained between the blades of a high-speed rotor, promises a leap in power and ...

The jet engine of the future is one step closer to reality. Scientists at ETH Zurich recently examined the real-time flames and vibrations of a futuristic hydrogen-powered engine. "Our study is the ...

“But over the past 10 to 15 years, we’ve cracked some of the technologies that will enable open fans to be as fast as a jet, quiet and 20 percent more efficient than today’s engines.” Open Fan ditches ...

To handle the extra volume, the jet engine exhaust nozzle is typically expanded ... It ensures fuel droplets form a fan shape, enabling better mixing with air. “[It] can generate a frequency ...