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Lift over foils
JAXAshby wrote in message ... jim, the 'bernouli's" say the air is one unit at the leading edge of the wing, and because it travels a shorter distance along the straight bottom surface than the longer top surface it therefore means the air along the top *had to* speed up to "catch up" with the air on the bottom, therefore less pressure. Bernouilli may have said that. I didn't. And I like symmetrical aerofoils, like rudders and keels, or ones that work well upside down as well as the right way up. This is not true. it does not HAVE to. I'm not proposing that the air 'has to catch up'. I'm just saying that if it loses pressure, it's got to gain speed (or disperse energy in some other way). The most efficient wing surface out there is a thin sheet shaped into an "S", with the top forward part of the "S" the leading edge and the bottom rear part the trailing edge. Indentical distances for air to travel and the most lift available for the drag. (problem: andy particular "S" only works for one airspeed) Now I think the device you're proposing is designed to add a downward speed to the air, then subtract that speed, leaving no net change in downward speed. Is that correct? If so, you're proposing that a net force can be generated by displacing air through a distance, rather than adding momentum to it. Interesting. I haven't heard of this design in aerodymamics before except in the context of windmills. I can see how such a device would generate a magnificent torque (lift at the front, cancelled by 'anti-lift' at the rear). This torque would have to be stabilised by a net lifting body on a lever arm for any practical application. But I am very out of date in this subject, so a few questions first: Has it been written up anywhere? Do you know any practical applications? For sure, I wouldn't want to fly upside down with this one. Nor use it for a keel. Instead of thinking of "low" pressure and "high" pressure, think of what low and high means. high has more air molecules pressing against the surface at higher molecular speeds. low has fewer molecules and/or lower molecular speed of those molecules. Yup. Got that. Brownian motion or some similar name and all that. But I don't see what difference it makes. To create lift (by changing the momentum of the passing air) there must be low pressure above the wing compared to the pressure below the wing. reword this using impact of molecules instead of low/high pressure and see what happens. Right: 'to create lift there must be fewer molecules at lower molecular speeds above the wing compared to the higher number of molecules at higher molecular speeds below the wing'. So? Jax, I hope you're not making the mistake of confusing the temperature/pressure linked random motion of molecules with the mean speed of a flow pattern! My point remains: 'there are fewer molecules at lower [random] molecular speeds above the wing' - so what did they sacrifice their energy to? My argument is that it could only go to an increased mean stream speed. Are you denying this? or am I out of date here as well? JimB |
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