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Old 01-30-2018, 04:23 PM   #54 (permalink)
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PRK is Phil Knox AKA aerohead. Another example based on the
Vanagon that popular in the Aerodynamics subforum is this:



What it tells us is that the humped back of the bubble top has a lower Cd (0.40) than the baseline 0.44, even though the CdA would be higher. Upstream effects.
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