A means for extracting rotational energy from the vortex created at aircraft wing tips which consists of a turbine with blades located in the crossflow of the vortex and attached downstream of the wingtip. The turbine has blades attached to a core. When the aircraft is in motion, rotation of a core transmits energy to a centrally attached shaft. The rotational energy thus generated may be put to use within the airfoil or aircraft fuselage.
Wingtip vortex turbine
1990-04-17
Sonstige
Keine Angabe
Englisch
NTIS | 1981
|Wingtip-Vortex Turbine Lowers Aircraft Drag
NTRS | 1982
|Wingtip Vortex Turbine Investigation for Vortex Energy Recovery
SAE Technical Papers | 1990
|NTIS | 1984
|Wingtip vortex dissipator for aircraft
NTRS | 1976
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