#magnuseffect — Public Fediverse posts
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Magnus Effect Drone Flies, Looks Impossible https://hackaday.com/2025/11/30/magnus-effect-drone-flies-looks-impossible/ #proofofconcept #Magnuseffect #dronehacks #fixed-wing #flight #drone #rotor
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Flettner Rotors Spin Anew
In the 1920s, the world saw a new sort of marine propulsion, ships with one or more tall, smokeless cylinders. These Flettner rotors, named for their inventor, would spin in the wind, generating lift to propel the boat, much as a sail would. (The difference is that the rotor uses the Magnus effect.)
The market crash that kicked off the Great Depression spelled an end to the rotorship, but the idea is getting revived as industries search for greener forms of ship propulsion. Although the Flettner rotor still uses fuel (to spin the rotor), it can complete a voyage on only a small fraction of the fuel needed for conventional propulsion. (Image credit: Getty Images; via PopSci)
#aerodynamics #Flettner #fluidDynamics #liftGeneration #magnusEffect #physics #propulsion #sailing #science
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Flettner Rotors Spin Anew
In the 1920s, the world saw a new sort of marine propulsion, ships with one or more tall, smokeless cylinders. These Flettner rotors, named for their inventor, would spin in the wind, generating lift to propel the boat, much as a sail would. (The difference is that the rotor uses the Magnus effect.)
The market crash that kicked off the Great Depression spelled an end to the rotorship, but the idea is getting revived as industries search for greener forms of ship propulsion. Although the Flettner rotor still uses fuel (to spin the rotor), it can complete a voyage on only a small fraction of the fuel needed for conventional propulsion. (Image credit: Getty Images; via PopSci)
#aerodynamics #Flettner #fluidDynamics #liftGeneration #magnusEffect #physics #propulsion #sailing #science
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Why cricket’s latest bowling technique is so effective against batters - Enlarge / Some cricket bowlers favor keeping the arm horizontal during ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2042516 #fluiddynamics #sportsscience #aerodynamics #magnuseffect #cricketgame #science #physics
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Magnus Effect Propels This Flettner Rotor Boat - The Magnus effect is a interesting and useful phenomena. [James Whomsley] from [Pr... - https://hackaday.com/2021/11/27/magnus-effect-propels-this-flettner-rotor-boat/ #flettnerrotor #magnuseffect #mischacks #magnus
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Magnus-Effect RC Aircraft Is A Lot Harder Than It Looks - Conventional airfoil wings have come out on top for getting flying machines airborne over... - https://hackaday.com/2021/08/05/magnus-effect-rc-aircraft-is-a-lot-harder-than-it-looks/ #aerodynamics #magnuseffect #rcairplane #mischacks #news
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What the physics of skipping stones can tell us about aircraft water landings - Enlarge / Experiments by Chinese physicists have shed further light on the intric... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1758208 #spacecraftwaterlandings #fluiddynamics #magnuseffect #gyroeffect #science #physics
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Typhoon-Tough Turbines Withstand Wild Winds - It’s really beginning to feel as though the problem of climate change is a huge boulder rolling down... - https://hackaday.com/2020/10/07/typhoon-tough-turbines-withstand-wild-winds/ #verticalaxiswindturbine #magnuseffect #engineering #originalart #greenhacks #windpower #featured #turbine #typhoon