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Piwoslaw · 03-26-2010, 04:43 PM

Here is a drawing from Piechna's book. It is based on a paper by Buchheim et al.[1]. It shows how the coefficient of drag (Cx) is influenced by the ratio of the height of the stagnation point (Hsp) to the height of the car (Hnadw).

[1] Buchheim R., Leie B., Luckoff H.J., Der neue Audi 100- Ein Beispiel fur Konsequente Aerodynamische Personenwagen-Entwicklung, ATZ 85, 1983, pp.419-425.

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Piwoslaw aero guerrilla Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Warsaw, Poland Posts: 3,749 Svietlana II - '13 Peugeot 308SW e-HDI 6sp 90 day: 58.1 mpg (US) Thanks: 1,329 Thanked 749 Times in 476 Posts	Stagnation point Here is a drawing from Piechna's book. It is based on a paper by Buchheim et al.[1]. It shows how the coefficient of drag (Cx) is influenced by the ratio of the height of the stagnation point (Hsp) to the height of the car (Hnadw). [1] Buchheim R., Leie B., Luckoff H.J., Der neue Audi 100- Ein Beispiel fur Konsequente Aerodynamische Personenwagen-Entwicklung, ATZ 85, 1983, pp.419-425. Attached Thumbnails __________________ e·co·mod·ding: the art of turning vehicles into what they should be What matters is where you're going, not how fast. "... we humans tend to screw up everything that's good enough as it is...or everything that we're attracted to, we love to go and defile it." - Chris Cornell [Old] Piwoslaw's Peugeot 307sw modding thread