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Old 09-18-2022, 07:55 PM   #546 (permalink)
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For Watt it's worth....

At ?t=730 this video looks at the underbody of the Ford Lighning. I thought the bellypan was interesting. It's basically a full length skid plate with massive corrugations.

The point being there will never be laminar flow in the underbody. It's an open-sided plenum with one moving wall. The ground or the vehicle depending on your point of view.

Suggesting that continuity of surface is more important than smoothness.
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