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Originally Posted by tasdrouille
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.
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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.