Thread: Venturi puzzle
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Old 01-30-2011 | 05:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Cubdriver
Kind of, except for the units. Sanity check: does it make sense for a flow of this type which is perhaps a carburetor venturi or a wind tunnel flow, to be going only 300 feet in an entire minute? A regional pilot can run more than 500 ft per minute which is of course seriously slow by human standards , so this air would be going a lot faster; how about V2= 300 ft/sec. You can treat this problem as a two dimensional flow.
Right. That would be an RTFQ issue on my end...

I'd like to see a regional pilot run 500' a minute! (Unless he's trying to make a commute home!)
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