boundary layer

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Investigate the drag forces produced at the turbulent boundary layers in a moving aircraft

flow past a stationary solid sphere

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interface fluid buoyancy Magnus effect Pascal’s principle thixotropy cavitation

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Ludwig Prandtl.

Ludwig Prandtl

German physicist