2003/11/01 by Holger Babinsky · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies
paper · doi:10.1088/0031-9120/38/6/001
The popular explanation of lift is common, quick, sounds logical and gives the correct answer, yet also introduces misconceptions, uses a nonsensical physical argument and misleadingly invokes Bernoulli's equation. A simple analysis of pressure gradients and the curvature of streamlines is presented here to give a more correct explanation of lift.