Thread: Which Trailer shape is better??
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Old 03-24-2014, 04:55 PM   #108 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by bikenfool View Post
Wow, so you guys are saying that the cool looking teardrop trailer design is crap? Unless it has a taper in the plan view also? I'd like to get educated, can you point me to some literature on this? My fluid dynamics education is very rusty.
I'll try for a link to the Full-boat-tail trailer for T-100 thread,page 25,mid-page,there's some graphical drag tables which might help.Nope.I don't know how to link threads which exist on the same forum sorry.
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