Frank Lee,
You may be right. There is a high probability that you are.
I'm still in the "What would this even look like?" stage. This is very much an
data gathering exercise for me at this point. My current thinking suggests
the potential benefit is much smaller than 100% drag reduction.
On the road out in the real world, in constantly changing airflow velocities
and directions -- that would be yaw, right? -- forget 100% drag reduction.
I'd be surprised but pleased to see a 5% drag reduction and ~2.5% MPG
improvement.
As to vehicles this might work best on, these would somewhat approximate
the cube of the cited experimental results. That would be full size vans and
maybe older pickup trucks, for sure not my Prius.
Still, we don't really know if this might work, even a little bit.
Geez, I feel like I'm trying to sell snake oil...
better make that '
perpetual motion lotion.'
Then again, I guess we better not pursue that suggestion.
