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Old 12-09-2009, 10:19 PM   #98 (permalink)
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"Which brings me to my next technical question: How large a scale model do I need for reasonable prediction of airflow on the full size version, using tuft testing on a moving platform (affixed to a boom on the front of a car)?"

To get the same Reynold's number on a half-scale model, you can push it twice as fast, and so on, until you get into transonic effects.
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