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Old 06-10-2020, 02:01 PM   #45 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
Am I correct in thinking that the action is longitudinal rather than normal to the surface? Even though pressure diagrams use normals for magnitude the resultant is closer to toward the wake?
Think of it as a resultant vector force, with both axial, vertical, and perhaps periodic,cyclic transverse components, depending upon the local Mach number. Very complicated !
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