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Consider an airfoil in a wind tunnel (i.e., a wing that spans the entire test section). Prove that the lift per unit span can be obtained from the pressure distributions on the top and bottom walls of the wind tunnel (i.e., from the pressure distributions on the walls above and below the airfoil).

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Answer:

The solution proved are in the attached file below. Also the explanation is in the attached file

Explanation:

Consider an airfoil in a wind tunnel (i.e., a wing that spans the entire test section-example-1
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