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Old 02-11-2015, 05:22 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Ls 430

If a member,or friend or family of a member had one of the LS 430s,we could get it into the A2 Tunnel and see if we got 0.26.It would be a good validation.
Also,if the United States had their own national wind tunnel,all cars sold could be independently-verified.
If every man,woman,and child in the US donated a 3-Dollar bill,it would be enough to finance the construction easily.
Suppose we could do the same for a supercomputer for Direct Numerical Simulations.Mercedes-Benz says that it takes about 2-days to do the full Navier-Stokes 3D CFD analysis,and that it is within 1% accuracy,compared to a full-scale tunnel test at critical Reynolds Number.
About 182 vehicles could be analyzed numerically each year.
I'd be happy to drop $6 for the 2-pack.
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