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Could you flex the shape of the inner donut somehow to change the vortex?
by foota 9y ago
Could you flex the shape of the inner donut somehow to change the vortex?
- dmayle 9y agoThis. The simplest way to guide would be with a flexible membrane in between the two rotors that contained some sort of electrofluidic bladder
- akhilcacharya 9y ago+1. This is what I was thinking but I'm not a a MechE. Would it work?
- foota 9y agoI'm not a mechanical engineer either :p
- crocal 9y agoYes. There is this company [1] trying to use a similar concept (ejectors) to build a « motorbike hovercraft ». I haven’t heard about them for a while. They have patents on the concept [2] [1] www.aerofex.com [2] http://www.google.ch/patents/WO2011126535A2?cl=en http://www.google.ch/patents/WO2011126535A2?cl=en EDIT: link to patent.