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Old 4th November 2006 | 08:09
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Andy_RR
 
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Originally Posted by JP1
have never seen a description of how a wing works using change of momentum,
From Bookworm's link you can travel to this page (http://www.diam.unige.it/~irro/richiami1_e.html) and it basically takes the Navier-Stokes equation (momentum based) and derives Bernoulli. Don't ask me to explain the derivation, but it proves that they are in essence one and the same thing.

A

PS: Pitts, did your BSc (H) (helicopters?) tell you how induced drag is modelled - from a scientific interest, rather than a practical aviation interest?
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