Sailing Theory Tutorials - Airflow Over a Sail
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 Published On May 4, 2017

This video introduces the concept of streamlines and how to sketch an airflow diagram that represents both flow direction and velocity magnitude changes with streamlines.

The topics of stagnation and Bernoulli's principle are introduced to explain how areas of locally high and low pressure develop over the surface of the sail. The approximate pressure distribution is then linked to the lift and drag forces generated by a sail in a flow.

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