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Undergrad Why do air foils produce lift?
I have sometimes seen the Coanda effect used to explain why air travels over the top of a wing is redirected downwards, is this correct, or is it more related to the boundary layer's effect on the air traveling over the wing? Or is the Coanda effect a result of the boundary layer tampering with... -
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Undergrad Why do air foils produce lift?
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Undergrad Why do air foils produce lift?
Hello, I have recently joined with hope that I can find a straight forward answer to a question that has bugged me for so long. Why do air foils REALLY produce lift? I have heard and read of the most common explanation involving the bernoulli effect, but when I dug deeper I read that the...