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Can you help me understand why air is (relatively) more viscous the smaller you are? Does it have something to do with the volume (mass) of an object growing fa
by Infernal 3y ago
Can you help me understand why air is (relatively) more viscous the smaller you are? Does it have something to do with the volume (mass) of an object growing faster than the surface area available to support it in the air? Or is it something else?
- FiatLuxDave 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_number Read down until 'similarity of flows'
- somat 3y agoHere is an interesting paper on the topic. https://cooperlab.wustl.edu/PracticalAdvice/Purcell%201977.pdf https://cooperlab.wustl.edu/PracticalAdvice/Purcell%201977.p...