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Originally Posted by jviolet10
Here is a very crude image of what I'm thinking the shape will look like
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The rear corners of a pickup bed pose a real challenge with streamlining.
Ideally,we're instructed to maintain a rolled corner at the bed rail-to-bedcover interface
This allows for a 'ring-vortex' 'fluid-tail' discovered (sort of) by Dr.Alberto Morelli in the Turin Polytechnic Institute in the 1970s.
Here you can see how Morelli has softened these edges
This is a schematic of the ring-vortex in action
When you do a pickup,you end up with something like this,which recorded a 22% drag reduction.It's a known quantity and worth doing if you can stomach the complication of the build.
It's taken me 6-weeks to do this modification to my bedcover.
