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Originally Posted by Logic
Quite so. Cant argue with all that.
However:
The lay person has no cooking clue whatTF airflow looks like around a wing or cylinder etc-etc.
This is simply a clever way to plant the seed that then might flower into the likes of your understanding of aerodynamics.
I have also heard it said that aerodynamics is so chaotic/random that if you hear an aerodynamicist sounding certain; he doesn't know his job!  |
* it would be incumbent upon the naysayer to provide the caveats / conditions under which they are clouding the waters with respect to 'aerodynamics.'
* within the context of EcoModdder.com, and streamlining a car to make it 'aerodynamic', and respecting the narrow definition of 'aerodynamic,' as laid out by Dr. Wolf-Heinrich Hucho, in his ground rules of fluid mechanics, ' chaos / random ' is what we'll be eliminating, with the exception of the entropy of the turbulent boundary layer, which is totally inescapable, and the knowledge of, not even 'actionable' information.
* I can only promise you, with 100% certainty that, if you follow Hucho's recipe for 'aerodynamics', you can arrive at road vehicles in the range of Cd 0.09,to, Cd 0.07., with 'off-the-shelf' technology.
* 'low-drag' is 100% understood.
* 'low-drag' is not a 'black art.'
* anyone speaking to the contrary is completely out of their depth, with unspeakable consequences.