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Old 10-21-2020, 11:33 AM   #61 (permalink)
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XL1 flow visualization

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Originally Posted by Vman455 View Post
Confirmation bias? I took a screenshot from the same video that produced the image you're talking about, just a few seconds after. Yeah, I'm trying to lead people astray....
The more accurate photograph appears in ' Modifying the AERODYNAMICS of Your Road Car, on page 48, Figure 2-45.
From the caption: ' Note the attached flow from nose to tail, and the strong undercar flow.' Julian Edgar.
In your screen-shot, the streamline filaments are too unstable to have been recorded at super-critical Reynolds number. It's simply impossible.

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