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Originally Posted by Christ
Also this:
And googling found me this:
In This Chapter the Modifications That Were Carried Out To
Which makes reference to an empirical front end design by Hucho and Janssen, and the refinement testing involved.
I can't find a site that gives any Hucho - specific info without costing me the purchase price of the book... |
In the FLOW-IMAGES galleries,there are some color shots of the VW Rabbit which Hucho,Jansen,and Emmelman were involved with.There is also an overhead ( plan view ) of the Rabbit nose in smoke.
You can see what little radius is required to prevent separation.
One of the SAE papers reported 80-mm in full-scale for leading edges.I think that translates to 4 and a fraction in inches.
But there is a formula,something like 0.03 X width = R.
I didn't expect to be here today but we finished early in Dallas and I got in before traffic formed.I'll try and remember for next time.