Fox and McDonald's Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
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Author: Philip J. Pritchard, John W. Mitchell
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Chapter 10, Problem 87P
If an ideal windmill is operating at best efficiency in a wind of 48 km/h, what is the velocity through the disk and at some distance behind the windmill? What is the thrust on this windmill, assuming a diameter of 60 m and an air density of 1.23 kg/m3? What are the mean pressures just ahead of and directly behind the windmill disk?
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