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freebeard · 12-16-2014, 12:41 AM

I don't have a good picture handy, but my understanding is that the box cavity needs to touch the Template line, then you get little recirculating eddies on it's outer faces.

Subdividing might reduce the scale of the turbulence in the wake, or not.

12-16-2014, 12:41 AM	#39 (permalink)
freebeard Master EcoModder Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: northwest of normal Posts: 28,797 Thanks: 8,181 Thanked 8,951 Times in 7,393 Posts	I don't have a good picture handy, but my understanding is that the box cavity needs to touch the Template line, then you get little recirculating eddies on it's outer faces. Subdividing might reduce the scale of the turbulence in the wake, or not.