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Originally Posted by freebeard
Made me look: Mike Turner = Basjoos. 
Tropfenwagen for the win. I look for the edge cases. One example is this offroad vehicle shaped like a dolphins head:
Granted it needs wheel pants, but wouldn't the reverse tumblehome produce a jet of air down the sides? |
It's hard to know without actually being with it.
'seems like the hard edge,over the roof might cause separation,precluding the formation of a jet,but otherwise I can see what you're talking about.That side flow would be captured in there like a fence.
Texas Tech Alumni, Scott Funderburk, might caution us to be wary of vortice formation off those hard edges.During his stint on Project Tailwind,he experienced high-drag,attached,longitudinal vortices wherever hard intersections were present.I suspect that NASA saw the same thing on Project Shoebox,their modified Ford Econoline.(nature abhors right-angles)