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Old 05-13-2010, 06:50 AM   #77 (permalink)
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I'm sorry, TechStuf, but the science is not on your side. Aerodynamics is a reasonably mature field, and a body that sheds vorticies is higher drag than a streamlined body. Take your vortex shedding zones and fill them with teardrops. That's what we do, and that's why we tuft test. There are dozens of examples of extremely low-drag cars that you can read about in the Aerodynamics forum, and you'll see that they all have extensive streamlining and attached flow in common.

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