Advective and pressure contributions to circulatory lift

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For uniform flow plus a line vortex of counterclockwise circulation , the outward advective momentum flux around a large circle is . The Bernoulli equation supplies an equal pressure contribution. Their sum is the force on the fluid; the force on an obstacle per unit span is its negative, . Retaining only the advective term loses half the lift and obscures its sign.

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