airflow
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To investigate how nightjars fly, researchers studied the birds in a wind tunnel, recording their movements at different speeds and measuring the patterns of airflow left behind their wings.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
The EV’s most distinguishing feature is its mouthless face that, needing to admit less cooling airflow, omits an upper grille opening.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Meanwhile, the region’s sticky humidity is thanks to an airflow pattern bringing moist, tropical air to Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
A wheel shield is a piece of carbon that is used to shape and direct airflow around the wheel for cooling and aerodynamic purposes.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
The suitcase blocked some of the airflow, but at least I knew it wouldn’t creep up on me while I was sleeping.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
This method let them assess heat at the street level, where temperatures vary locally based on human activity, 3-D urban geometry and airflows.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 27, 2022
It includes all the engineering controls that keep the scientists and their surroundings safe: enclosed, ventilated workspaces called biosafety cabinets, directional airflows and anterooms to control air movement inside the lab.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2021
Or you could just think like a bug: architects are mimicking the natural cooling airflows of termite burrows.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 15, 2020
“The constant swirling airflows reduce pressure from fungus. And we have exposure for days.”
From Reuters ● Jun. 28, 2018
Aerodynamic equations describing transonic airflows might contain as many as thirty-five variables.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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