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hopefully I'm successful!).
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I agree that tuft testing is important. But I disagree that there is nothing between that and CFD modeling that is useful--pressure measurement,
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You must have missed the “ie” in my statement. I agree that there are many other ways of testing and coming up with ways of modding. It’s not uncommon for communities to end up with particular methods that become a sort of “tradition”. Ecomodder stickied the template so of course people would see it and be more likely to use it. That’s kind of what I meant by “in the absence of something better”. Lots of people new to aero would see it and use it until they were around long enough to learn more. I toyed with it briefly , just because it was there, but bought Hucho’s fourth edition at the time (as was widely encouraged) and never really paid much attention to the template myself.
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And that's just one of many examples of the template being used here as the arbiter of aerodynamic performance.
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Thats aero though. My god, chasing down all the misconceptions is a Herculean task! Even the experts disagree on some of the finer points.
Pressure measurement is not a new idea in aero, of course, but it’s cool that it’s now so accessible. I’m not fully convinced of how useful but I’m very open to seeing it experimented with. It’s gadgetry at its finest. What’s not to like?
Does that answer your questions?
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