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Old 11-12-2011, 03:08 PM   #222 (permalink)
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smoke attached

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Originally Posted by Gerrelt View Post
Where did you get this version of that image? It's the same as the picture I got (see: picture). But yours looks like the original non-photo shopped version. Seeing the line in the middle of your picture, is it a scan from a book?

(btw, I can see smoke attached to the rear window in your version... )
Gerrelt,if you can find the thread FLOW-IMAGES ,there are some more wind tunnel smoke flow photos.I think there are two images of the Golf/Rabbit,with smoke being injected into the airstream before,and directly into the wake.
I think what you're seeing is some of the smoke caught in the wake circulating up under the outer flow field.
The two images are in Hucho's, Aerodynamics of Road Vehicles.
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