PX285 - L4a - lift and circulation - magnus effect

- considering that the cylinder is rotating around its axis, which would drag the fluid in the direction of rotation due to viscosity
- modelling it as:
where, the negative term is the free vortex due to clockwise rotation
- at the surface of the cylinder,
- the pressure around the cylinder,
- the force:
- there is no drag (ie. force in the
direction) - the force is perpendicular to the velocity, which can be the lift force:
where,
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this is called the magnus effect
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in the fluid's frame of reference:
where,
- in the vicinity of the boundary, the no-slip condition applies as a boundary condition
- the flow moves with the cylinder
- from bernoulli's principle:
, and if , then there is lift