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Originally Posted by aerohead
I think they are lowering both the leading and trailing edges rather than raising the roofline.Daimler-Benz is too smart to believe adding frontal area could benefit drag.Trailer flow is typically fully attached with conventional trailer design.Their 95-square-foot wake is the issue which lowering would address.------------ PS "teardrop" is used out of context,as in a real teardrop form,the sides would be converging in direct proportion to the drop of the roof.
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Air coming off the top of the windshield, or the fairing on a truck, would fan out anyway, creating an effectively larger frontal area. Something like this would just fill the low pressure bubble and let the air reattach, or stay attached.