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aerohead · 10-03-2022, 12:08 PM

Member AeroStealth owns a 2014 Ford F-150 Eco-Boost, Crew Cab, 6.5-foot bed,4X4 pickup.
Ford Motor Company published Cd 0.404 for this pickup.
AeroStealth purchased member Bondo's ( Brett Herndon ) Aerolid and Aerotail, both wind tunnel tested, courtesy of the Ford Motor Company.
With the two modifications, the F-150 was reduced to Cd 0.306. A 24.25% drag reduction.
While Ford Motor has never published an official drag coefficient for the current F-150, it seems unlikely that it's drag coefficient has 'increased' by 14.6% since 2014.
In his Master's Thesis of 2011 at Chalmers University, Martin Olsson reported that the Lattice Boltzmann Method ( LBM ) CFD used, produced a 13% discrepancy between wind tunnel tests of the same model.
Does AirShaper employ LMB?

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aerohead Master EcoModder Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Sanger,Texas,U.S.A. Posts: 16,312 Thanks: 24,439 Thanked 7,386 Times in 4,783 Posts	'Cd 0.463' Member AeroStealth owns a 2014 Ford F-150 Eco-Boost, Crew Cab, 6.5-foot bed,4X4 pickup. Ford Motor Company published Cd 0.404 for this pickup. AeroStealth purchased member Bondo's ( Brett Herndon ) Aerolid and Aerotail, both wind tunnel tested, courtesy of the Ford Motor Company. With the two modifications, the F-150 was reduced to Cd 0.306. A 24.25% drag reduction. While Ford Motor has never published an official drag coefficient for the current F-150, it seems unlikely that it's drag coefficient has 'increased' by 14.6% since 2014. In his Master's Thesis of 2011 at Chalmers University, Martin Olsson reported that the Lattice Boltzmann Method ( LBM ) CFD used, produced a 13% discrepancy between wind tunnel tests of the same model. Does AirShaper employ LMB? __________________ Photobucket album: http://s1271.photobucket.com/albums/jj622/aerohead2/