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Old 04-06-2011, 09:43 PM   #31 (permalink)
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It doesn't, dave, and the coanda effect can never effect thrust, since that would require the addition of energy, something coanda doesn't do. Coanda's effect is that of direction change through utilization of nearly all of the existing energy. In the example I provided, coanda removes nearly all the kinetic energy given by gravity, until the flow of water reaches an exhaustion point, where gravity takes over again.

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