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On Jun 21, 1:44*pm, Mikki wrote:
put it in a breeze and you end up with an area just off the boundary layer where going into wind there is an increased relative velocity compared with the part going with the wind where there is a reduced relative velocity. the velocity difference creates the pressure difference which causes thelift. Why should the velocity difference experienced between the top and bottom side of the spinning cylinder attribute tolift??? It shouldn’t, for one thing there is no velocity difference. Where Bernoulli’s effect requires the motion of air the relative airflow or free stream that causes aerodynamic force does not. The relative airflow influencing the cylinder is made up by its rotation and the breeze it is in. The motion of air (breeze) is the same on the top as it is on the bottom although its relative airflow may have a velocity difference on top and bottom as a result of rotation. Another thing if you could generate an actual steady speed circular airflow around the cylinder the air on top will have a much different velocity than the air on bottom by virtue of their totally different directions. This drastic change in velocity does not cause any pressure differences as a result of Bernoulli’s effect because its speed does not change. For the second thing a rotating ball or cylinder moving through the air does not generate lift at all in the real world only in the artificial world of formula based texts. Lift and drag are very similar forces, aircraft have circumnavigated the earth in spite of drag while others have used drag exclusively as a means of horizontal acceleration to fly around mother earth. Even in circumstances where drag opposes one motion it can cause another. The drag from a prop causes the airplane to tend to roll in a direction opposite prop rotation. When you paddle a canoe the drag from the paddle is what the canoe uses as a means of thrust. When the ball or cylinder is spinning drag is reflected in a force that opposes rotation. The surface drag on one side of the ball is in one direction but the ball does not move in this direction because the surface drag on the opposite side is not only in the opposite direction it is the same amount that is on the other side. If the amount of surface drag on one side of the ball were to become different than the opposite side a more linear friction drag force will be created. What makes a spinning car tire move linearly is the non-aerodynamic drag between the tire and the ground. One way to make the surface drag around the ball or cylinder to be uneven is to move it through the air while it is spinning, pushing it into the air. Why do people call this uneven surface drag lift? This requires some intentional ignorance. If the ball generated a force perpendicular to its flight path without spinning in would truly be lift but it don’t. What makes the ball generate a force perpendicular to its flight path is the fact that it is spinning. Lift is most accurately defined as being perpendicular to the relative airflow that caused it. The relative airflow that is influencing the ball is caused by its motion while in the air (spinning) and its motion through the air. To derive at the inaccurate assumption the spinning ball is generating lift you must totally ignore the large fact that it is spinning. How many people would believe the spinning ball is generating lift if you told them that it was based on the false premise that the ball is not spinning? The drag on the spinning ball opposes its linear motion as well as its circular motion, how many directions is that? The uneven drag around a paddle wheel causes a paddleboat to move forward. This is a good example of drag and thrust being the same force. |
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