Inefficient fluid machinery used in the energy and transportation sector are responsible for greenhouse gas emissions and the resulting global warming. To improve efficiency, it is necessary to characterize and reduce flow separation on curved surfaces. To this end, researchers have now developed a flexible, thin film microelectromechanical system-based airflow sensor that can be utilized to measure complex, three-dimensional flow separation in curved walls for high-speed airflows.
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Source: ScienceDaily