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- From: dbrown@newssun.med.miami.edu (Daniel Brown)
- Subject: PHYSICS OF FINS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.170600.17284@newssun.med.miami.edu>
- Organization: University of Miami, School Of Medicine
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:06:00 GMT
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- I'd really like to know how a fin works:
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- i) a force diagram of its lateral resistance
- ii) the fluid dynamics explaining how it creates
- lift (is this just an application of Bernoulli's
- Principle -- Law, whatever, where faster water
- flow occurs at the top of the fin, slower water
- flow at its point?)
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- Anyone know a technical reference to this stuff?
-
- Sincerely,
-
- Dan
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