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Originally Posted by Big time
I remember that the windshield base is a high pressure zone thus better to place an air inlet instead of an outlet.
However in Joseph Katz book Race Car Aerodynamics Designing for Speed it advises to put the radiator air outlets both behind the front wheels and in the windshield base in a prototype car.
Why is that?
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The technology dates to the 1930s,with Dr.Kamm,who used the cooling system flow to energize the flow going over the windscreen,which otherwise would be stalling.The injection of kinetic energy into the boundary layer allowed for attached flow where otherwise there'd be separation.