Questions tagged [flow]
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What is subcritical and supercritical boundary layer?
What is subcritical and supercritical boundary layer?
What is the difference between them?
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What causes the adverse pressure gradient that leads to flow separation?
When reading about flow separation I generally see a diagram like this:
imp source: Wikimedia commons
This shows that the boundary layer slows as it passes over the wing, eventually creating an ...
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What is the fuel mass flow rate at stationary full power for the CFM56 5C2/3C1 engines?
Does anyone know what is the value of fuel mass flow rate when stationary at full power for CFM56-5C2 or CFM65-3C1 turbofan engines? I am doing a work on engine performance and it seems that only ...
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How to calculate the static pressure in a pitot tube?
In a pitot-static tube, we have two different pressure, the static pressure $p_s$ and the total pressure $p_0 = p_s + \frac{1}{2}\rho v^2$, which comes from the Beroulli equation for incompressible ...
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Is there a physical argument for the Kutta-Joukowski theorem?
I am doing the following exercise:
Consider inviscid, incompressible, steady flow. The Kutta-Joukowski theorem $$L' = \rho_\infty V_\infty\Gamma$$ where
$L'$ is the lift per unit span
$\...
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Does this formula hold true for a source sheet covering a closed body of arbitrary shape?
Let me explain the picture above: We have a uniform flow and a source sheet cover the the surface of an arbitrary closed body. Let s be the distance measured along the source sheet, λ=λ(s) is the ...
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How do I calculate the normal component of the velocity at the midpoint of a source straight panel?
I am reading "Fundamental of Aerodynamics " by J.D.Anderson Fifth edition. Now I am at the chapter 3. If you got the book, please go to the page 286, the part that says: "when j = i, the contribution ...
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What causes these losses in this propeller simulation?
While running a CFD simulation comparison of 2 vs 3 blade propeller versions (48" diameter, 23" pitch, 3570RPM), I've come up with:
2-blade: 347N of static thrust @ 110Nm Torque
3-blade: 220N of ...
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Why is the flow ahead of a shock wave chaotic?
Here is the image of a shock wave on a cone in a small supersonic wind tunnel, the white lines are the condensations formed in the test chamber due to flow expansion.
Why are the condensations so ...
