Medium mover

With APM one can construct devices which act as pumps and fans that seem to have no moving parts and are only acustically perceivable when something is hold into the (designed to be laminar) airstream making it turbolent.

Miniaturized Fans

Including arrays of micro sized fans into a sheet of in-plane-flexible but not stretchable metamaterial is called a fancloth (a concept devised by J. Storrs Hall). Its a bit like an active sail.

Facilitating capsule transport

Air accelerators: One possibility may be to capture air (or any gas) or droplets of liquid at the entrance completely (not partially like in the following moving surfaces case) and use capsule transport to move and maybe accelerate this batch and release it at the outlet side. When dealing with gasses one must take care. One can unintentional build a heat pump.

Moving Surfaces

This is for airplanes (and submarines?).

Also from J. Storrs Hall is the concept of wheels turning on the surfaces (flat moving surfaces might work even better) to reduce aerodynamic drag to the negative regieme. High speeds need either infinitesimal bearings or special levitated bearings that can deal with the pressure. Things get interesting when the speed of sound gets approached. Its like a nano-turbomolecular-pump running at ambient air pressure (but with pre accelerated molecules). [Todo: How much analysis is present?]

What essentially happens here is inside out capsule transport. One replaces aerodynamic drag with the way lower superlubrication drag. Except for the displacement at the front and back the air "thinks" the plane is standing.