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Originally Posted by freebeard
......... and you should see what passes for aerodynamic speculation on other car sites.
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I know some car sites and design sites (illustration/Industrial design) have some frightful things being posted, which is why I think despite all the friction, this site is head and shoulders above those.
I was referring to sites dedicated to aerodynamics, although I'm not exactly sure if I know of any. Post a few and I'll check them out, a good way to get rid of me - haha.
The closest I've gotten to is the Physics Forum:
Physics Help and Math Help - Physics Forums
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Physics Forum site there is much bleed though into other topics because they tend to look at everything. If you were to post something on aerodynamics or Cd alone without considering other factors such as lift, handling and other fundamentals you will pretty much have to spend some energy getting the one answer you want. However you will learn a lot, and might feel fairly stupid in the end, especially if you have forgotten much of your college studies.
In my own defense, from what I can recall all of my car/truck studies have been 3D in nature, but like I said maybe not when using the template as advertised.
The cross-section is a deal breaker, I should have remembered building all those balsa aircraft models as a young teen. I made a killer 36 inch wingspan Spitfire, talk about ellipsoid (fuselage section and wings).
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