Series

Comparison — the series

One essay so far on this idea, and more questions about it than one essay answers.
  1. Flow past a cylinder at Re 100. A real fluid past a circular cylinder. At low Reynolds number the flow closes up behind the body much as the ideal theory says; as it rises the flow separates and a region of reversed flow appears behind, which is where drag comes from.

    The two theories, side by side

    The exact solution and the real flow, for the same body in the same stream. One is beautiful and predicts nothing has drag; the other is approximate and has a wake in it. Where they agree and where they part is the whole map of the subject.

    part 1 · viscous

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