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Old 07-10-2014, 03:35 PM   #40 (permalink)
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some new images

On page-1,in the 1st series of images I've added a 'golf ball',bowling ball,and Mair's boat tail.They're at the bottom.
If you compare the curvature on the balls leading up to the separation point with Mair's and the 'Template' you'll find a close correlation.
It is the gradual body convergence and pressure rise created by it, which allows the turbulent boundary layer to continue to receive kinetic energy,strafed in from the inviscid outer flow,critical for holding the TBL attached to the aft-body in spite of its 'desire' to flow backwards,against the current,towards the windshield headers low pressure region.
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