d'Alembert's paradox
Meanings
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- The contradiction that, for incompressible and inviscid potential flow, the drag force is zero on a body moving with constant velocity relative to the fluid.
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Etymology
Observed in 1752 by French mathematician Jean le Rond d'Alembert.
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