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Originally Posted by JulianEdgar
OK, you're back to stuff from the 1930s about shapes and imagined airflow patterns.
As someone else pointed out, it makes it very hard for you to succeed in your understanding when you refuse to read the current best descriptions of how things like rear spoilers work. Refer to Aerodynamics of Road Vehicles, 5th edition. There is a lot there that differs from the 1987 edition.
(Or just do some tuft and pressure testing on some fastback cars.)
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A look at Fachsenfeld's book would disabuse you of that notion. This is the foundation of the Kamm-back. It's a 'known quantity'. There's nothing theoretical or abstract about it any of it. In use today on the highest performance and most expensive cars.
I know how spoilers work. No mysteries there.