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Old 15th Dec 2007, 10:30
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neat elegant ?
I think not.

Could it be done. (Yes)

Would it be correct. Not the first few hundred experiments with any Long Complicated Formula.

Imagine trying to calculate how a hand full of sand will fall through your hands.
To many variables.
(Imagine also that the Sand granules are not all the same shape weight size Composition etc etc)

Ever hear about the saying that no two snow flakes are the same.

When flow separation happens. it is not just things like wing Surface texture/bumps, shape, speed etc. It is also all the variables of the air itself.

Computational power can calculate how a Start may Go supernova. so it could also be assumed that one could calculate a relatively simple thing like Flow separation etc. it just that it is not a Neat and Elegant formula. (well may be it is to the creator. but to you an I, it would Probably blow our meager 10w fuse).

I hope the statement from the book appears different now

neat elegant ?
I think not
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