Abstract: An air movement apparatus (10) comprises a curved body about which air can circulate, the curved body having a rim (12) and, in use, having a lower pressure surface (25) on one side of the rim (12), and a higher pressure surface (26) on the other side of the rim (12), an air outlet (22) to blow air over the lower pressure surface (25), an air inlet (24) to suck air in from the higher pressure surface (26), and air acceleration means (14) to move air from the air inlet (24) to the air outlet (22).
Abstract: A thruster such as a marine thruster has a fluid inlet, a fluid outlet, a shroud, a fluid passageway, and an internal toroidal body around which recirculating fluid passes at high speed, the recirculating fluid causing the incoming fluid to be accelerated through to the fluid outlet.