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24th Australian Institute of Physics Congress

11–16 Dec 2022
Australia/Adelaide timezone
Co-locating with the 7th International Workshop of Specialty Optical Fibres and Their Applications (WSOF), the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP), and the Conference on Optoelectronlc and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD)

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How Wings Actually Work: Navier-Stokes and Viscosity not Coanda or Others

15 Dec 2022, 17:30
1h 30m
Exhibition Halls F & G (Adelaide Convention Centre)

Exhibition Halls F & G

Adelaide Convention Centre
Poster AIP: Education Poster session

Speaker

Graham Wild (UNSW)

Description

Recently, YouTube science communicators have tried to explain lift. Unfortunately, fluids are not intuitive, and Navier-Stokes provides little qualitative insight. Saying Coanda is as incorrect as claiming equal transit, or simply saying Bernoulli. How do wings work? Navier-Stokes and viscosity!

Author

Graham Wild (UNSW)

Presentation materials

AIP_LIft.pdf
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