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The leading-edge vortices hardly alter their relative positions during the violent alternation of upstroke and downstroke, primarily because an important suction effect is produced by the rapidly descending upper surface.
Along the balanced growth path, per-capita output growth only depends on the growth rate of the leading-edge product quality.
The evident way to calculate these forces is to integrate the pressure on the surface of the wing, then add the leading-edge suction.
When the wire is located very close to the leading-edge, the streaklines have an amplifying appearance before they reach an equilibrium.
Vorticity-dominated flows include many aeronautical flows such as trailing vortex, flap-edge vortex and leading-edge vortex flows.
The dashed lines correspond to asymptotic solutions obtained for the bulk-boundary and leading-edge regions.
They also established the slender wing with controlled leading-edge separations as the basis for a new class of supersonic aircraft.
At the same time, the ordinarily rotating (counterclockwise-rotating) vortices are subjected to a more significant suction effect from the descending leading-edge surface.
