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/25/ Aerodynamic Lift Explained
This episode is a bit different. I produced it together with Joe D’Eon from the wonderful Fly With Me podcast. Together, we explored the question of how aerodynamic lift really works – in other words: why airplanes fly. He went out and asked a fellow pilot about what he thinks how lift works. I went to the University of Stuttgart’s Intitute for Aero- and Gasdynamics and talked with Thorsten Lutz. He explained the details of how it works. If his explanation still doesn’t do it for you, take a look at Wikipedia. They have a couple of nice illustrations.
Posted: January 28th, 2010 under podcast, podcast (en).
Tags: aviation, physics
Comments
Comment from Wally Klingensmith
Time November 13, 2010 at 2:38 am
It seems to me that the definitive answer to this question would come from computational fluid dynamics (CFD). CFD should answer the questions “How much is the lift is due to impulse ?” and “What do the flow streamlines around the airfoil look like ?”. It also seems to me that somebody has by now used CFD to inquire about this. DO CFD results exist that answer this question ?
Comment from admin
Time November 13, 2010 at 11:26 am
Hi, your suggestions certainly sounds reasonable. but I guess Thorsten would have known about that. So I am not sure :-)
Cheers,
Markus
Comment from Jürgen
Time December 2, 2010 at 9:33 pm
Gibt es die Folge bzw. das Interview mit Torsten Lutz auch in deutsch ?
Grüße Jürgen
Comment from admin
Time December 3, 2010 at 9:24 am
Die Folge gibt’s nicht in Deutsch. Das Interview muss ich mal kucken. Meldest Du Dich mal per Email bei mir (voelter@acm.org)?
Markus
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