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Originally Posted by freebeard
Galloping goalposts!
Speaking for myself, not "the forum", I seek an intuitive understanding of the clutching fingers of air that retard a car's progress. 4) gets extra credit for using 'exoduct'.
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I don't think that intuition is a good approach to learning about anything much.
In car aero, the Coanda Effect is primarily used to describe
the tendency of a stream of fluid to follow the contours of a convex surface rather than continue moving in a straight line.
It is therefore present on all normal cars.