d'Alembert's paradox

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Observed in 1752 by French mathematician Jean le Rond d'Alembert.

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d'Alembert's paradox

  1. (fluid dynamics) 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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