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RobertSmalls,
Your CFD experience is similarly frustrating as mine. I see no use in CFD unless it can match at least somewhere close to wind tunnel results, so all I even tried to do was to compute drag for the USS Akron shape using the CFD. Since results were not at all close to the goal, it had no chance of functioning in an optimization process.
It did however show general flow effects that helped with perception, maybe. I think I got a lot more insight from the old Freeman 1933 paper.
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