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Old 11-15-2008, 11:37 AM   #40 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by tasdrouille View Post
This thread is really interesting. Care to give a quick shot at just a small 45 degrees lip spoiler that would be as high as the boundary layer is thick (edit: on the baseline model) at the rear edge of the trunk?
Setup

I modeled with the cut plot visible, but I turned the plot off so you could see the result.


The next two wave plots show velocites from 0-55mph - anything above is saturated black. This makes seeing the BL and separation zone much easier.

Baseline


45 degree Result


Separation happens earlier... Intuitively, this makes sense.
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