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Old 03-27-2014, 06:47 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Great graphics Phil. Thank you for posting all these. I am a very visual person and your drawings make it easy to understand the research done by these great aerodynamacists. I know you have been saying it all along but it is still surprising to see that the ideal front end in illustration 4 has the same 0.30 cd as the regular windshield. They both decrease at about the same rate as the back is boattailed. Amazing!

I think it is time to boattail my Golf (which looks a lot like the car in illustration 4)
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The power needed to push an object through a fluid increases as the cube of the velocity. Mechanical friction increases as the square, so increasing speed requires progressively more power.
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