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Old 03-07-2008, 02:29 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by tasdrouille View Post
A lot of great inventions were inspired by nature. In regards to aerodynamics though, a given design will not necessarily behave the same at 15 mph than 100 mph. This might work, but only tests will show.
The working fluid is different as well. Somewhere in my fluid mechanics texts I have the method to calculate changes in fluid/speed/power/etc in order to do scale modeling. Buckingham Pi method IIRC.

I believe this is the inspiration for VGs.
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Last edited by boxchain; 03-07-2008 at 02:58 PM.. Reason: remembered method name
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