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Airflow over an airfoil
Flight is one of the most important achievements of mankind. We owe this achievement to the invention of the airfoil and understanding the physics that allow it to lift enormous weights into the sky.
All flight is the result of forces acting upon the wings of an airplane that allow it to counteract gravity. Contrary to popular belief, the Bernoulli principle is not responsible for most ....
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.... again, by determining the shape of the airfoil and then finding the angle of attack. Drag is less than lift up to a certain angle of attack. After that, the air encountering the surface of the wing is either pushed off or deflected in a way to cause turbulance.
So, what does lift and drag have to do with airflow? As hinted in the above paragraph lift and drag are directly related to the shape of the airfoil. A special property of liquids is this, they will tend to follow a sur ....
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