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Old 01-10-2013, 10:28 PM   #34 (permalink)
kennybobby
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i have some more questions, but i saw a late model toyota camry up close today at rideout and martin road--the headlights have some sort of VG molded into the top outer corner that even has some sort of zigzag-stair-step pattern on the leading edge. Thanks to this thread i had a clue...lol

Ryan,
When you say that your rear window has separated flow, do you mean there is a laminar flow boundary layer close to the glass and there is also a flow stream higher up above the surface of the glass that has detached from the upper edge of the boundary layer? And this separated flow layer makes the rear spoiler ineffective? Is the separated layer (always) turbulent or possibly laminar/free-stream in character? How far above the glass do you think this separated flow begins (at the top edge of a very thick boundary layer)? Maybe some redundancy in the questions here, so feel free to summarize it if you can explain all this flow stuff to some of us aero novi...
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