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aerohead · 05-10-2012, 06:44 PM

I looked through Hermann Schlicting's book,'Boundary Layer Theory'.He sites 46-researchers who've actively investigated blown/suctioned structures,from Prandtl's first paper in 1908,through 1976.
There are probably more but my German isn't very good.
Also,if you can snag a copy of the book Race Car Engineering by Paul Van Valkenburg (sp?),in the very back of the book he has smoke photos of a model Corvette,with,and without suction.It's remarkable..
In my seminars or mod data lists there's also a siting for a fellow by the name of Cornish III who was involved.
Alex Tremulis,writing in the early 1980s had presumed that by now,all cars would have active aerodynamics with Cds of 0.12 using suction slot technology.
Israel's solar-pond driven turbo-generator power production,married to a vehicle's exhaust system may be able to extract enough heat to power a pump.It would be a thermodynamic coup,moving closer towards an 'adiabatic' vehicle.

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aerohead Master EcoModder Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Sanger,Texas,U.S.A. Posts: 16,333 Thanks: 24,453 Thanked 7,394 Times in 4,789 Posts	Schlicting I looked through Hermann Schlicting's book,'Boundary Layer Theory'.He sites 46-researchers who've actively investigated blown/suctioned structures,from Prandtl's first paper in 1908,through 1976. There are probably more but my German isn't very good. Also,if you can snag a copy of the book Race Car Engineering by Paul Van Valkenburg (sp?),in the very back of the book he has smoke photos of a model Corvette,with,and without suction.It's remarkable.. In my seminars or mod data lists there's also a siting for a fellow by the name of Cornish III who was involved. Alex Tremulis,writing in the early 1980s had presumed that by now,all cars would have active aerodynamics with Cds of 0.12 using suction slot technology. Israel's solar-pond driven turbo-generator power production,married to a vehicle's exhaust system may be able to extract enough heat to power a pump.It would be a thermodynamic coup,moving closer towards an 'adiabatic' vehicle.