Necratoid,
By Mr. Weasley, I meant Arthur. You know, the guy who keeps on asking why
airplanes fly, and making those comments that an overly sensitive scientist or
industrialist could take as insulting?
Navier-Stokes is a set of equations that describe fluid flow. I have vague and
unreliable memories of deriving Bernoulli from them. That said, if you can work with
Navier-Stokes, excepting the thermodynamics/heat transfer of the engine, the basic
mechanics of flight are easy enough to learn.
In hindsight, Arthur is not as annoying now as when I was younger. Since when
I was reading Harry Potter heavily, I've found real people, with real power (for good or for ill),
who are apparently appallingly ignorant about an area (thermodynamics/heat transfer) that
I have a better grounding in than I do flight.
Arthur has the excuse of possibly never having been exposed to math or science,
much less anything like having passed an accredited university curriculum. The other
situation can get me into a frothing rage when I let myself.
By Mr. Weasley, I meant Arthur. You know, the guy who keeps on asking why
airplanes fly, and making those comments that an overly sensitive scientist or
industrialist could take as insulting?
Navier-Stokes is a set of equations that describe fluid flow. I have vague and
unreliable memories of deriving Bernoulli from them. That said, if you can work with
Navier-Stokes, excepting the thermodynamics/heat transfer of the engine, the basic
mechanics of flight are easy enough to learn.
In hindsight, Arthur is not as annoying now as when I was younger. Since when
I was reading Harry Potter heavily, I've found real people, with real power (for good or for ill),
who are apparently appallingly ignorant about an area (thermodynamics/heat transfer) that
I have a better grounding in than I do flight.
Arthur has the excuse of possibly never having been exposed to math or science,
much less anything like having passed an accredited university curriculum. The other
situation can get me into a frothing rage when I let myself.