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Originally Posted by aerohead
I'd be very interested in a source for such a metric. I've never encountered any citation in the professional literature which suggests that such a relationship exists for vehicles of the dimensions we're discussing.
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No, but in aircraft it is known that more severe camber lines (thus sharper deviations) do not result in more drag up to a point at lower speed. Look at the whole ugly gottengen series as an example. Some of them outperform the nasa 64 series of laminar at high angles of attack.
Might be that turbulent is acceptable at low Reynolds numbers.