Explicit Role of Viscosity in Generating Lift

2017/07/19 by Tianshu Liu, Shizhao Wang, Guowei He · 1 voice · 3 citations
Engineering · #Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms #Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows #Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis

paper · doi:10.2514/1.j055907

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• Can lift be generated in a steady inviscid flow?
• Lie derivatives of fundamental surface quantities in incompressible viscous flows
• The intrinsic decomposition of vorticity dynamics on an arbitrarily moving and deforming boundary

Discussions

• I read many posts and papers that stated that lift and drag forces cannot exist without viscosity (and also posts stating the contrary). (Does that mean that invicid fluids does not have any force int [stackexchange, 4 points]