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Old 1st June 2008 | 04:01
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airfoilmod
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"...there is no addition of heat..."

"The total enthalpy and the total temperature are constant."

I think it's fair to say that picking apart your post would not be helpful. I mean no disrespect, but you seem to stylishly increase complexity while attempting to characterize a simple concept. I prefer a straightforward characterization. This is a technical forum, and I may be out of place. I enjoy metaphor and global inference. Mathematics is like a boggy swamp when I want to blaze a hole in the ether. I get what you write; I can't be sure if your prose is proprietary, paraphrase or quote.

"We cannot use the incompressible form of Bernoullis equation across the Shock". Well, of course, that is precisely what I said.

"The density of the gas varies locally as the gas is compressed by the object." Again, intuitively (and textually) obvious.

I wouldn't correct you, what you say is enlightening and accurate, but I think you want me to be wrong, or somehow in disagreement with technical prose. Any Natural phenomenon can be explained in a number of ways, from the entry level to the arcane and hopelessly circuitous. I am not expert in aerodynamics by any means and made that clear at the beginning. I won't learn anything if I always have to be right or the most learned in the room.

Basically, I like the pictures more than the text, always have. Never grew up I guess.

All the Best (Is Australia as beautiful as I imagine it to be?)

Airfoil
 
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