2 papers
physics.flu-dyn2021
Beating Betz's Law: A larger fundamental upper bound for wind energy harvesting
Charlie E. M. Strauss
Betz's law, purportedly, says an ideal wind harvester cannot extract more than 16/27 (59\%) of the wind energy. As the law's derivation relies on momentum and energy conserva…
q-bio.BM2015
Of fishes and birthdays: Efficient estimation of polymer configurational entropies
Ilya Nemenman, Michael E. Wall, Charlie E. Strauss
We present an algorithm to estimate the configurational entropy of a polymer. The algorithm uses the statistics of coincidences among random samples of configurations and is re…