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Originally Posted by JulianEdgar
A typical Aerohead argument, where he goes up some blind alley dementedly flogging a dead horse. (There: two metaphors in one sentence, and they actually work together.)
Professional race teams also invest in huge, moving floor wind tunnels - and they're not testing trucks in them...
It's been known forever that small wind tunnels have major problems in giving accurate data - not only because of the blockage factor but also because the length of the tunnel test section influences flow behind the car.
Well that might help explain the emotional investment that some people seem to have in Aerohead's tiny tunnel testing, but unfortunately the physics doesn't actually care about how much people gave to the cause.
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1) race car team activities are not germane to the mass-produced passenger vehicles, which are the focus of modification here at EcoModder.com. Don't bring them up again. Please!
2) it may be your myopic personal belief, prejudice against, and open hostility and discrimination towards 'tiny' wind tunnels which colors your comments about 'forever', however your conclusion about scientific the consensus on the topic is quite dubious at best, and overwhelmed by contradictory evidence published and available within the public domain.
Had your commentary ever reflected true insight into the scientific rigor, necessary to arrive at such conclusions as your own, it might have caught my attention, as well as that of others here at the forum.
When actually spoon-fed, scientific facts which refute your 'beliefs', facts which college students currently pay $25,000 a semester to be exposed to in an engineering curriculum, you reject the actual science, cherry-picking bits and pieces of data, while clinging to your sophomoric folk knowledge about wind tunnels, perhaps because it's the only thing which corroborates the false narrative you espouse in your book(s).
3) And if your going to comment on physics, my recommendation would be to, learn something about the topic before hand.