Penn State engineering graduate student Divya Tyagi (right) shows her work on a century-old math problem to her adviser, Sven Schmitz, a faculty member in the College of Engineering. Penn State / Kevin Sliman
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Divya Tyagi, a graduate student at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), has revised a 100-year-old math equation to improve modeling for wind turbine efficiency.
Tyagi used a century-old equation originally developed by aerodynamicist Hermann Glauert. Glauert created the equation to find the maximum power coefficient to…


