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Originally Posted by freebeard
They have those big indoor canals with a gantry crane that they test ship hulls in. They are huge. A full size (even oversize?) car model upside down with hydrogen bubbles (pace Graysgarage), and multi-camera motion capture might be illuminating.
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Yes, the US NAVY, David Taylor Model Basin, West Bethesda, Maryland is quite the candy store!
Texas Tech University built a small version of it to originally test the Ford Taurus underhood flow, later parachute designs for the Pentagon.
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Hydrogen bubbles would be great, as they're neutral buoyancy, have the same mass as air, and behave just like 'air.'
