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Originally Posted by sprinterdellacasa

As a kid I used to draw pictures of what I thought would be the airflow around a car, kind of like a "this is going fast" kind of thing. I'm still fascinated by what might be called "fluid dynamics", but I don't know enough math to get past basic college stuff.

Toyota had an ad for the 80? Corolla, a hatchback kind of sporty-ish car. I loved the look of the car, and the ad had the car driving in water (rain?) with the shot taken with a slightly slower shutter speed, making the droplets around the car kind of blur together. I googled it briefly just now but I only got shots of Toyotas driving through puddles. This ad was a picture of the car going at speed, with the roostertail and everything.

F1 racing - I remember watching the Williams BMW cars in F1 - the air went straight up from the rear wing. Not that any other F1 car was different, but at the time I was rooting for them.

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If you're interested in fluid dynamics, a basic understanding of algebra and some collective geometry skills will get you by for the most commonly used calculations.

Other than that, it's just a science that requires alot of thought about "the path of least resistance" and how flow reacts to resistance.

It's only called fluid dynamics because if you can flow through it, it's a fluid.

That, of course, includes both gasses and liquids. There are also some things called non-newtonian fluids, which basically means that they can transfer between a solid or fluid state based on input.

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