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Old 11-26-2020, 07:02 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by JulianEdgar View Post
Remember also that the direction of rotating vortices depends on the overall lift/downforce of the body. That is, when viewed from behind, bodies that develop lift have clockwise vortices on left, and anticlockwise on right, whereas downforce bodies have vortices that rotate in the opposite directions.
Right you are--I should have specified, I was thinking of a fastback or notchback (or somewhere between the two, like the Civic I posted) developing a clockwise-rotating vortex on the driver's side (US)/counterclockwise on the passenger side.

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Do you mean Scibor-Rylski's Road Vehicle Aerodynamics? I have started to try to go through this book so if you've got a page I might jump ahead to check it out.
In the 2nd edition (1984), pp. 56-62, with some more discussion in the next section on fastbacks pp. 62-65.

The copy I bought turned out to be a library copy from City University, where Scibor-Rylski taught, with 14 due dates spanning 1996-2005. That makes me wonder who read through this particular copy before I got it!
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