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Originally Posted by aerohead
In Hucho's, 'Aerodynamics of Road Vehicles', 2nd-Edition, December 1986, on over the 540-pages of actual text, I identified 812 visual-quanta 'templates', on 259 different pages.
All of my library is full of these types of visual teaching tools.
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People often see what they want to see.
And what I want to see is a section in any aerodynamics textbook that applies a template as has been so often been encouraged here. Viz:
- Show where there is separated and attached flow on existing cars
- Guide the shape of rear extensions
- Show how rear spoilers on sedans should be positioned and shaped
- Allow the assessment of the ‘aerodynamic purity’ of cars
I don't know of even one textbook or technical paper that does so.
That's the reality: encouraging people to apply a predetermined shape as some sort of tool to help them in their aerodynamic car modifications is to simply mislead.