[aerohead]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Putting plasma actuators all over a car would be akin to putting golf ball dimples all over one. Friction drag is not the goal.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_actuator


Interestingly, Monte Carlo processing may improve CFD analysis:
https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200629124108.htm

*Comports with Bucky Fuller's Synergetic Geometry.

Above 20-mph, all automobiles are already covered in dimples, by virtue of supercritical Reynolds number.
If you introduce plasma in between the body surface and boundary layer, the air will separate from the plasma. No benefit.