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freebeard · 11-26-2019, 06:36 PM

This example isn't a truck, but the side plates on the diffuser bell outward the width of the rear tire, separating the wheelwell turbulence and forcing it outward instead of mixing with the underbody flow. The bell shape accelerates the underbody flow irrespective of how smoothened it might be.

11-26-2019, 06:36 PM	#3 (permalink)
freebeard Master EcoModder Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: northwest of normal Posts: 28,544 Thanks: 8,086 Thanked 8,880 Times in 7,328 Posts	This example isn't a truck, but the side plates on the diffuser bell outward the width of the rear tire, separating the wheelwell turbulence and forcing it outward instead of mixing with the underbody flow. The bell shape accelerates the underbody flow irrespective of how smoothened it might be. __________________ . .Without freedom of speech we wouldn't know who all the idiots are. -- anonymous poster ____________________ . .Three conspiracy theorists walk into a bar --You can't say that is a coincidence.