Quote:
|
Road vehicle aerodynamics requires a turbulent boundary layer to control flow separation.The kinetic energy fed into the boundary layer helps pin it against the body,preventing it from migrating forward to the body's zone of minimum pressure (at the windshield peak) and rolling up into eddies,then full-blown turbulence and separation.
|
I guess I need to wrap my head around this. The parallel copper bars on the tail I can see accelerating(dragging) the air rearward, but the U-shape virtual air tabs on the front must act differently. If, as you say, at all.
I won't post this Yoututbe video since it's off-topic but it's findable;
Quote:
Upward Bound: Mass Drivers
Isaac Arthur
2 days ago 31,178 views
|
He describes plasma windows (for the muzzle of a rail gun), and towers that are a hollow tube supported by the flow of plasma dragging the tube upward.
I guess I'm a fan of Isaac Arthur, and plasma.