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Old 09-04-2020, 03:30 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aerohead View Post
1) Free flow, outside the boundary layer IS considered inviscid flow.
Aerohead, can you post some visuals on this?

I did find the below, and it is different than the boundary layer I had imagined you were describing.

I imagine that the first layer of boundary air can cause all sorts of drag, lift and vortex formation so we better not ignore it, right?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.res...1_30496832/amp
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