I am not a Deep Blue member
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My question may seem trite, but are the vortices shed by a paintball strong enough to influence a second paintball following along a similar path?
i.e. do vortices shed by prior paintballs further disrupt subsequent paintballs in a long string of shots (indepedent of the subsequent paintball's own vortex shedding issues)?
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Originally posted by ben_JD
If my posting this here is inappropriate, please erase.
My question may seem trite, but are the vortices shed by a paintball strong enough to influence a second paintball following along a similar path?
i.e. do vortices shed by prior paintballs further disrupt subsequent paintballs in a long string of shots (indepedent of the subsequent paintball's own vortex shedding issues)?
Good question. I do know that vortices can hang around for a surprisingly long time. And I do know that wing tip vortices from aircraft can disrupt the airflow over a subsequent aircraft's wing. So I suppose it is at least possible for a paintball's vortices to affect subsequent shots.
For now, however, I think I'm going to concern myself with how the vortices affect the paintball that's doing the shedding. Can anyone point me towards a reference describing the magnitude of momentum change imparted by a shed vortex? Preferably one with big writing and lots of pretty pictures... ;)
BJJB