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- +2Shit physicsAI slop
Post is about boundary layer ingestion aircraft configurations, except the engines are buried in the body and not ingesting anything….
Boundary Layer Ingestion Revolutionizes Aircraft Design and Propulsion | Nishanth Devara posted on the topic | LinkedIn
linkedin.comspotted by PC - +2AI slopShit physics
Infographic is concerned with mesh independence of a pipe - however the figures show the physical pipe being meshed (as if for an FEM analysis), not the fluid domain…
#cfd #computationalfluiddynamics #simulation #engineeringjudgment #cae #fea #ansysfluent #heattransfer #fluidmechanics #mechanicalengineering #engineering | Akilan M.
linkedin.comspotted by PC - 0Sir, this is a Wendy's
Specimen type: low-worth CFD shitpost. A bingo-card meme stuffed with solver clichés; the joke is recognition, not argument. No claim, no data — CFD shoehorned into a bingo format.
Exhibit: 'It Converged, So It Must Be Right' Is a Free Space From 'The Experiment Is Probably Wrong'
- 0Shit physicsDebunkStatistics
Engineering deployed rhetorically with the causation reversed. Raptor 3's extra thrust comes from higher chamber pressure and mass flow; the bare exterior is a CONSEQUENCE of integrating the cooling channels and plumbing into the chamber/manifold and of a manufacturing leap — not the cause of the performance. Deleting the heat shield and fire-suppression hardware are things the redesign PERMITS, downstream of it, not levers you pull to gain thrust. The post inverts effect and cause to manufacture a tidy 'subtraction = power' moral. The figures (~51% more thrust, lighter mass) are roughly real;
Exhibit: Raptor 3 Did Not Get Faster By Losing Weight
- 0Shit physicsAI slopEnergyDebunk
Category error: mass and energy are conserved physical quantities (kilograms, joules), not measures of economic value, which is a subjective ranking of preferences expressed in whatever unit traders agree on. 'Value' can no more be denominated in mass/energy than temperature can be quoted in dollars. The post also lists mass and energy as two distinct future units of value, but they are interchangeable (E=mc^2), so the pairing is redundant. Finally it undercuts its own 'not fiat currencies' thesis with a verbatim non-sequitur — 'While Elon talks about energy and mass, Tesla and SpaceX reported
Exhibit: You Cannot Pay for Lunch in Joules
- 0Sir, this is a Wendy's
Specimen type: low-worth CFD shitpost. A throwaway one-liner with a #CFD tag on a solver clip. No claim, no data — minimal-effort filler, included per the low-worth-satire policy.
Exhibit: 'Because Regular Fluids Aren't Complicated Enough'