From early steamships to modern azipods, this breaks down the hydrodynamic, mechanical, and safety reasons ships push rather than pull through the water, and why placing the propeller ahead of the ...

Abdulghani Mohamed is a researcher at RMIT university who receives funding from a few companies for undertaking aerodynamic optimisation. The basic configuration of traditional propellers has not ...

It's fairly common knowledge that when a supersonic aircraft approaches the sound barrier, what follows is the sonic boom. This transitory period between subsonic and supersonic, known as transonic ...