If an airfoil with a sharp trailing edge begins to move with a positive angle of attack through air, the two stagnation points are initially located on the underside near the leading edge and on the topside near the trailing edge, just as with the cylinder.
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Over the years, he began to test different shapes, materials, and compositions until he discovered in 2002 that a ball could bounce more efficiently than other balls on water if it was soft and had a Lycra covering which enables easy flow separation at the hydrodynamic stagnation point.
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In the first moments after exiting the launch tube, the heating rate with an optimal nose shape is around 30 kW / cm 2 at the stagnation point, though much less over most of the nose, but drops below 10 kW / cm 2 within a few seconds.
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Experimental observations show that the stagnation point ( one of two points on the surface of an airfoil where the flow speed is zero ) begins on the top surface of an airfoil ( assuming positive effective angle of attack ) as flow accelerates from zero, and moves backwards as the flow accelerates.
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:: : : Total pressure exists everywhere, and stagnation pressure only exists at stagnation points, but total pressure and stagnation pressure are equal ( except in the vicinity of shock waves . ) Seeing total pressure and stagnation pressure are equal, many authors who write about incompressible flows, and low speed flows, don't complicate things by talking about total pressure.
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The Bernoulli equation applicable to incompressible flow shows that the stagnation pressure is equal to the dynamic pressure plus static pressure . " Total pressure " is also equal to dynamic pressure plus static pressure so, in incompressible flows, stagnation pressure is equal to total pressure . ( In compressible flows, stagnation pressure is also equal to total pressure providing the fluid entering the stagnation point is brought to rest isentropically .)
