It's a Bird, It's a Plane: Flow Patterns around an Oscillating Piezoelectric Fan Blade

Engineers at Nokia Bell Labs use multiphysics simulation to capture the interplay between an oscillating piezoelectric fan and the surrounding air flow in the pursuit of a quiet, reliable, and low-energy cooling solution. [Article written by COMSOL, Inc. to appear in IEEE Spectrum. The article is based on work that has been published: Agarwal, A., Nolan, K., Stafford, J. & Jeffers, N., 2017, Visualization of three-dimensional structures shed by an oscillating beam, Journal of Fluids and Structures, 70, 450-463.]