Pugilistic Animus
my stupid power cord pulled out, while posting earlier, I hate typing so I'll just be brief...and I'll get back to the finer points later...
Understood
the amount of wing area immersed in effective [lift producing] flow at a given alpha
So basically the surface area of the upper and lower surfaces of the wings/fuselage and so forth not counting volume inside them? Does this factor the curves of the wing's top and bottom surfaces and the curves of the fuselage and so forth?
almost changes in pressure distribution due to flow separation point shifting, at different values of mach
And pressure distributions ultimately yields center of pressure shifts
not necessarily, stronger shock waves just very complex shock wave interactions...
You mean interference effects?
(I was always under the impression that higher reynolds numbers meant more turbulence though)
most of temperature rise is due to compression of the air, although frictional heating term is important too
I understand
it's more of a conceptual term, meaning the boundary layer fails to separate at points predicted assuming a constant 'flow rate'...
Does it separate more towards the front of the wing/fuselage, or more towards the rear of the wing/fuselage as the reynolds numbers go up?
by an amount 'eta' that eta is the coefficient of slip ---it really can't by theoretically computed---it's due to the long paths over which the air molecules must travel...
Wait... if it can't be theoretically computed, then how come people were able to design objects that fly at hypersonic speed?
I can see how something like that would cut through and ride the waves---surfboard-like....
I didn't think of it that way, but I suppose it does look a little bit like the front of a surfboard
and also a decent amount of area for the low speed regimes of takeoff and landing....I can't really say how it would do,...but you could probably get an airplane out of it
Understood
that's actually how it all really starts even the SR-71, Concorde, B757 etc...imagination
True enough