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Estimating drag using only a temperature profile
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[QUOTE="OrangeDog, post: 5456839, member: 584341"] I was reading this thread on Reddit about estimating drag using only a temperature profile. I was reading the responses, and I feel like most of them are missing something. Since this forum is more science-focused, what do you guys think? [URL]https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/4gkwao/if_i_could_very_accurately_measure_the/[/URL] I am not a member of Reddit, but if I was this would be my answer: In theory, if you could measure the temperature field perfectly, you would have enough information to know some of the terms in the energy portion of the N-S equation. NASA provides a good picture: [URL]https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/nseqs.html[/URL] So essentially, you'd be able to know the E terms (using cp*T), the q terms (the heat flux), but you could not determine the shear stress, or the velocity components, u,v,w, and the pressure field unless you assumed P=rho*R*T. This leaves a few cases: If you had a body with no separation, you might be able to measure the heat generated in the boundary layer and compute the velocity profile. For simple cases like the flat plate you can even find exact solutions. From this information you could compute the viscous drag If you assume P=rho*R*T and neglect viscosity You can figure out the magnitude of the velocity field, since you simply have the advective acceleration of the flow at that point equaling the pressure gradient. If you a assume 1 or 2 dimensional flow There might be some special cases where you can get an exact solution. So overall: It isn't practical It can be done only in limited cases For difficult and interesting problems, the answer is not without more information. [/QUOTE]
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