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Originally Posted by jamesqf
No, what I understand when I hear "frontal area" is what you'd get if you drove straight into a brick wall - the area of the FRONT of the car.
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It's not frontal area, but cross section, at the point where the area is greatest.
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Are we all being punked? How does someone who has been here as long as you not know what the rest of us mean when we talk about "frontal area"? In your definition, where does the "front" of the car end? Your two examples seem to contradict each other re: what constitutes frontal area.
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Don't know who uses that definition, but it seems a misuse of language at best, since the area would be identical to everything you can see from the back.
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Um...everyone here.
The staff at the A2 wind tunnel. Cyclists. NASA. The EPA. Computer geeks. Pretty much anyone who talks about, works on, experiments with, or is interested in aerodynamic drag.
Of course, if you're just looking for a vocabulary crusade, there are more fruitful areas to address--starting with the general use of "aerodynamic" as a qualified property meaning "streamlined."