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Old 07-19-2016, 06:04 PM   #529 (permalink)
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what's happening
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Originally Posted by kach22i View Post
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I don't understand the flow off the top of the roof, what's happening here?
They've got the airspeed slowed way down in the tunnel and the subsequent sub-critical Reynolds number flow is causing premature separation.
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