Magnus effect - Fan wing Aircraft
What is Magnus effect? The flow over a rotating cylinder can explain the Magnus effect better. The cylinder rotates in one direction. The flow gets high velocity in the upper half and hence less pressure. Bottom half is rotating in opposing fashion to the free stream air flow, hence air molecules going around the region gets less velocity and hence high pressure. The high pressure goes to compensate the less pressure, then lift gets produced. The theory of production of lift from the rotating cylinder is what known to be Magnus effect. What is fan wing aircraft? Please have a read on Bernoulli’s law for better understanding of answer. Fan wing aircraft is the one which produces lift primarily from the rotation of cylinder located in the wing span. It works based on the Magnus effect. The fan part rotates. The angular velocity of the fan accelerates the linear velocity of air molecules passing over top surface of the fan wing aerofoil. ...