The University of Iowa's bid to become the U.S. Department of Energy's designated test lab for supersize wind turbines received a boost Tuesday from the Iowa Power Fund Board. The board authorized ...

BALTIMORE (WJZ) --It won't be long before offshore wind is powering homes in Maryland, but with so few examples of completed wind farms in the United States, it's hard to fully imagine what a ...

It will huff, and puff, and blow the house in -- but only for research purposes. Wind engineers just unveiled the world's largest portable hurricane wind and rain simulator. Civil and coastal ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Wind Tunnel Simulator Wind Tunnel Simulator is a creative physics sandbox game that combines intuitive 3D sculpting with realistic aerodynamic simulation.

Researchers at the University of Florida (UF) have developed a portable wind and rain simulator that can create a hurricane environment in a laboratory setting for scientific study. The unique device, ...

In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World writes that HPC simulation provides a platform to develop advancements in energy generation technologies. Through the use of ...

Wind Engineering, Vol. 28, No. 4 (2004), pp. 433-443 (11 pages) This paper presents a new wind turbine simulator for steady state conditions. In order to provide a test platform for wind turbine drive ...

Just in time for the beginning of the hurricane season, the University of Florida (UF) engineers have built the world's largest portable hurricane wind simulator. Mounted on a trailer, the device is ...

Consider the inside of a typical wind turbine nacelle. It will contain a gearbox, electrical controls, a generator, hub mounting, blade controls, and several other major systems. In the case of ...

Launched on November 2nd, the crowdfunding campaign for ZephVR, a VR fan accessory that “adds realistic wind at the right moments” achieved its $30,000 goal on Kickstarter in just a few hours, with 30 ...