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ID: past-exam-of-the-flows-fluctuations-and-complexity-and-symmetry-and-relativity-paper-of-part-b-of-the-physics-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2011/1/3/solution

Use the rest frame of the hydrofoil, with undisturbed velocity . Let be the undisturbed pressure at the lower surface level , so the undisturbed hydrostatic pressure is . The Bernoulli equation gives, with and ,
These formulas implement the prescribed neglect of the other velocity components. To the controlled first order in , . The vertical component of pressure acting on an inclined surface is integrated over its horizontal projection, so
The total upward fluid force per unit span is . The lift due to motion is ; is the separate buoyancy. If the given approximate speed is squared without truncation, the formal additional dynamic term is , but a controlled second-order prediction would require the omitted second-order flow and transverse-velocity contributions too.

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