NASA have got a Beginner's Guide to
Aeronauticshttp://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/index.htmlthat's
worth looking at. It's includes a section on compressible
aerodynamics http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/bgc.html, which -
as Peter points out - is not the regime that these turbines
Look, I know I'm wrong here, but
Doesnt greater density imply compression?
N
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa
Nick notes that there's something funny if an array reduces effective wind for
a peleton of sweaty b icy clistes, but increases it for a bunch of spinning
turbines. And he's dead right! A nd these are legitimate, rational questions
that an intelligen t layman should ask. The answer is that
Thank you, Peter. You are very kind to take the question seriously.
Asking a question is like making a mess. Doing it is alot easier than undoing
it.
I am particularly puzzled by the manner in which incompressibility would seem
to disturb the ways in which people talk about meteorology.
plissa...@comcast.net wrote:
I was concerned at his naive statement that the power increases
because the rotational speed increases.
Wouldn't it be remarkable for these Caltech guys (ok, trained in
aerodynamics but researching biopropulsion) to not hold torque fixed in
their models?
Marcus
plissa...@comcast.net wrote:
When I study it, I'll brief Friamers on the content, and its validity.
Looking forward to that!
Thanks,
Marcus
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
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Hi,
Steve wrote:
SimTable (tm) is always in need of more
notional models to demonstrate it's utility across a wide variety of
domains, especially those likely to be involved in public-policy
decisions.
Also, the SF Complex art crowd might be interested in looking at
interactive exhibits using
