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Old 09-30-2008, 01:01 PM   #10 (permalink)
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I don't remember specifics off the top of my head but in my Fluids class we discussed wind tunnels and dimensional analysis. I do remember that we had calculated that the cross sectional area of the tunnel would have to be at least 5 times that of the object (car). If it was not large enough you would run into effects of the air compressing in the tunnel. This would cause very convoluted results.
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