• Question: As you do things with aerodynamics can you tell me how the coanda effect and the magnus effect work because I’ve seen YouTube videos on them but they never explain how it works

    Asked by anon-239544 to David on 11 Mar 2020.
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      David Threlfall answered on 11 Mar 2020:


      The Coanda effect is how a flow of air ‘sticks’ to a surface and flows over it, if the surface was a football or tennis ball which was spinning then the magnus effect is how the air moves differently on a moving surface. The magus effect makes a football swerve.

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