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Old 05-10-2012, 08:53 AM   #360 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aerohead View Post
A Fluid Dynamics professor would say that the forebody takes air at rest, and high static pressure, and accelerates it to its highest velocity pressure and lowest static pressure.
I'm having issues placing in my brain what you wrote.

Perhaps because it different than my typical thoughts which surrounds hovercraft lift and thrust systems.

In those systems I tend to think:

High air velocity = Low pressure

Low air velocity = High pressure

Still trying to get my head around the statement;
highest velocity pressure and lowest static pressure
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