Shark skin is covered in denticles ... by acting as high-powered, low-profile vortex generators, the denticles on the airfoil significantly increased lift. "These shark-inspired vortex generators ...

A team of evolutionary biologists and engineers have demonstrated a new structure inspired by shark skin that ... increased lift, acting as high-powered, low-profile vortex generators.

Harvard scientists have developed a new structure inspired by shark skin that could improve ... significantly increased lift, acting as high-powered, low-profile vortex generators.

Harvard scientists have developed a new structure inspired by shark skin that could improve ... significantly increased lift, acting as high-powered, low-profile vortex generators.

But an ichthyologist at Harvard performed a study and found that Fastskin is “nothing like shark skin at all,” and that its surface properties ... called a leading-edge vortex, as the water ...

Next, the team 3D-printed the shapes on the surface ... new shark-inspired design, however, achieves a lift-to-drag ratio improvement of up to 323pc compared to an airfoil without vortex generators.

The riblets, as seen on the scales, or “denticles,” of a shark’s skin ... the majority of the riblet surface. As a whole, vortex translation across the skin surface is also reduced by ...

In a process researchers call “vortex lifting,” flows are elevated and ... That said, it’s one thing to simulate shark skin—actually replicating it has proven extremely difficult.

Prior studies had shown that denticle ridges reduced friction drag by lifting turbulence vortices away from the shark skin surface, and such vortices are larger and farther away from the skin at ...

Harvard scientists have developed a new structure inspired by shark skin that could improve ... significantly increased lift, acting as high-powered, low-profile vortex generators.