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Old 11-12-2020, 12:37 PM   #132 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aerohead View Post
I dug out what I have on P.W. Bearman and brought it with me. I've had Hummel with me for the last 9-months or so.
We can better discuss it now if you like, however you may regret it. It's very pro-template, and extremely counterfactual to some of your 'modern' contemporary aerodynamic assertions.
Calm down; I wasn't attacking you and you don't need to make threats. I was merely responding to this claim:

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1) Most of the 'flow' on an automobile is 'laminar.'
Which you then corrected in your next post anyway:

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* Due to the 'size' of an automobile, once to 20-mph, it's going to be fully immersed in a turbulent boundary layer. And it's Cd constant up to 250-mph.
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