{"id":114046,"date":"2020-10-08T14:24:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T21:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/aerodynamicists-reveal-link-between-fish-scales-and-aircraft-drag"},"modified":"2020-10-08T14:24:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T21:24:06","slug":"aerodynamicists-reveal-link-between-fish-scales-and-aircraft-drag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/aerodynamicists-reveal-link-between-fish-scales-and-aircraft-drag","title":{"rendered":"Aerodynamicists reveal link between fish scales and aircraft drag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/aerodynamicists-reveal-link-between-fish-scales-and-aircraft-drag2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s findings have been published in <i>Nature: <i>Scientific Reports<\/i><\/i>: \u201cTransition delay using biomimetic fish scale arrays,\u201d and in the <i>Journal of Experimental Biology<\/i>: \u201cStreak formation in flow over biomimetic fish scale arrays.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reducing drag means faster aircraft speeds and less fuel consumption\u2014an important area of study for aerodynamicists such as Professor Bruecker, City\u2019s Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Nature-Inspired Sensing and Flow Control for Sustainable Transport, and City\u2019s Sir Richard Oliver BAE Systems Chair for Aeronautical Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Through their biomimetic study, Professor Bruecker\u2019s team has discovered that the fish-scale array produces a zig-zag motion of fluid in overlapping regions of the surface of the fish, which in turn causes periodic velocity modulation and a streaky flow that can eliminate Tollmien-Schlichting wave induced transition to reduce <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/skin+friction+drag\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">skin friction drag<\/a> by more than 25 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team\u2019s findings have been published in Nature: Scientific Reports: \u201cTransition delay using biomimetic fish scale arrays,\u201d and in the Journal of Experimental Biology: \u201cStreak formation in flow over biomimetic fish scale arrays.\u201d Reducing drag means faster aircraft speeds and less fuel consumption\u2014an important area of study for aerodynamicists such as Professor Bruecker, City\u2019s Royal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,38,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-engineering","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}