Researchers using the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have identified aerothermal flaws in jet engine turbine blades that conventional simulation methods could not detect. The ...

Supercomputers are capable of a mind-boggling number of calculations and one of them just found a flaw in a piece of technology that is used around the world.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. San Antonio Museum of Science and Technology and CEO David Monroe, left, died after a jet engine collapsed on him at Port San ...

In a long-running collaboration with GE Aerospace, researchers at the University of Melbourne in Australia have been steadily ...

The US National Science Foundation has awarded a $2 million grant to a team of engineers led by Lehigh University to tackle one of the biggest obstacles to deploying a new class of rocket engines that ...

The pause before takeoff is not hesitation, but a critical moment of engine verification and thrust stabilization.

With their capability to fly higher, farther, and more efficiently, jet engines have transformed air travel since their introduction. From its origins in the 1930s, the jet engine was a substantial ...

Fighter jet engines are complex machines that enable aircraft to reach incredible speeds. The modern fighter jet is defined by its engine, which accelerates a tremendous volume of air rearward that it ...