It's no secret that air travel requires a lot of technical know-how. What exactly is wake turbulence and how does it affect ...

The dramatic ordeal afflicting passengers on the QF94 from Los Angeles to Melbourne is understood to have been caused by the vortex, or “wake turbulence” caused by another aircraft which took ...

These imbedded vortices interact with each other and create some turbulence within the overall vortex. This lessens the strength of the overall vortex. In contrast, a clean wing produces a single ...

This creates drag and can make your car feel less stable. Vortex generators control that turbulence by energizing the air and guiding it where it needs to go. These fins aren’t just a trendy car ...

Matsuzawa, Irvine, and their collaborators had been running experiments with tanks of water to make “vortex rings” – like smoke rings, but in water. When they tried to combine them to make turbulence, ...

At the same time, that vortex is carrying conductive aerosol particles, which ionize the air and produce even more turbulence. Coarse copper leaf was chosen as the most conductive aerosol out of ...

Turbulence is being examined more closely in the wake of several recent incidents. An expert in aviation and the climate told BI how the warming atmosphere makes turbulence worse. One study found ...

Turbulent ball: William Irvine, Takumi Matsuzawa and colleagues have used this apparatus to track turbulence with lasers and high-speed cameras. (Courtesy: Takumi Matsuzawa) Researchers in the US have ...

One person is dead, and 30 are injured after a Singapore Airlines flight faced severe turbulence. Turbulence is getting worse, and that trend is likely to continue because of climate change.