Recent content by Clausius2

Hi everybody (to those who remember me). Hope all is well with you. I'm now in the bay area, in a city called "High Stick" in spanish and work in an office very close to the MemChu. :)

There you go: http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-wings.html I think that's a valuable resource for explaining why aircrafts fly. BTW Hello everybody! Long time no see you! I work now in the bay area in a well known university: Fear the tree! :) Hope all is well with you.

Ops! Obviously GI Taylor, Shercliff and Lighthill were fine british men, so not all merit goes to USA.

Just wanted to let you know, to those PF veterans that may remember me from writing here a long time ago, that, four years and a half after, I'm finally done with my phd and with my adventures in usa (for the moment)! I'll go back to europe after this (to france). I also wanted to add that...

I live in San Diego. Fortunately I didn't have to evacuate, I live near UCSD and even though the fire got very near we were lucky. All this stuff seems a cathastrophe, half of the county burnt out. I am not republican or democrat, but I honestly think that Governator's team and San Diegan...

Eddie Viscosity is an imaginary concept (also termed 'The Ansatz' in turbulence). It does not exist as the molecular viscosity, which is a well defined transport coefficient as stated by the Kinetic Theory. The Eddie Viscosity hypothesis was posed for making the things simpler, in the sense that...

I have over here people whose research focus involves control theory applied to trajectory stabilities, aircraft control systems and optimization. Of course that if you want to get your hands dirty you better go to look for a job. A Ph.D. gives you a couple of things: - an outstanding...

Thanks everyone!. The beach was crowded today! Is there a concert of HS in LA?. Holy molly!. I didn' now that!. Let me see...

Gracias man. Lemme know if you come down to SD, you deserve a couple of beers. Right now I'm going to buy some food to grill, we are going to do bbq on the beach today for my birthday. 1 abrazo, J.

Basically yes, but only for axisymmetric shapes, like a sphere or an ellipsoid moving parallel to its major axis. It is not that the force can be viewed as a point force, the force is just a number or a vector. It is said that the flow field- caused by the motion of the body through a fluid at...

I'm not going to come out with the mathematical theory here, but you might realize by yourself that any body, no matter its shape, is viewed from far far away as a point force when moving through a viscous fluid. From your studies on PDEs and Green's Functions you should be able to understand...

I'm going to clarify you what is a Perturbation series. Afterwards I have to go to sleep. Take Stokes scaling resultant momentum equation: Re\overline{u}\cdot \nabla\overline{u}=-\nabla P+\Delta\overline{u} This scaling is well posed if Re\ll 1. Imagine that I want to solve that equation...

That is damn right!. You answered yourself. I happen to not remember any special chapter of a book talking about this stuff deeply. Again I would recommend you to take a look at Batchelor's book. Non dimensionalization is only made via experience and common sense. Sometimes one only needs to...

Hey man, these questions that depart from typical engineering questions are more than welcome, and moreover if it is related to this stuff of neglecting things in fluid mechanics and sentences of the type "of the order of". That is what I am up to everyday on my desk. Maybe someday you'll be a...

Yes, and you will, you will keep on seeing that stuff many times. That is the essence of fluid mechanics. You better understand it. Even though some people here and there claim to be engineers, I have never seen such a fantastic maneuver of practical engineering such as that proposed by former...