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freebeard · 06-10-2022, 10:45 PM

Wickerbill, or Gurney Flap. It's a vortex generator, a small-scale localized feature that 'pulls the air around a corner' to reduce the size of the wake.

Vekke's Solidworks CFD thread shows that a reflex curve can have similar effect.

I'm favoring the splitter for my XFi. I have a blank cut out of 1/8" ABS for when the motivation strikes.

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freebeard Master EcoModder Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: northwest of normal Posts: 28,946 Thanks: 8,219 Thanked 8,988 Times in 7,425 Posts	Wickerbill, or Gurney Flap. It's a vortex generator, a small-scale localized feature that 'pulls the air around a corner' to reduce the size of the wake. Vekke's Solidworks CFD thread shows that a reflex curve can have similar effect. I'm favoring the splitter for my XFi. I have a blank cut out of 1/8" ABS for when the motivation strikes. __________________ . .Without freedom of speech we wouldn't know who all the idiots are. -- anonymous poster ________________ . .Because much of what is in the published literature is nonsense, and much of what isn’t nonsense is not in the scientific literature. -- Sabine Hossenfelder