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Originally Posted by ChazInMT
Interesting stuff. The only issue I see with this is it is for laminar boundary layer applications found on aircraft. Automobiles and such do not live in this realm. I'm 99% sure 99% of the time the air flowing over road vehicles is in a turbulent state, so this simply becomes non applicable to motor vehicles in ground effect.
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On a larger scale most flow on a car is laminar. On a microscopic scale all flow along a surface is turbulent. This is applicable to cars and is being applied to semis for drag reduction.