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Old 04-13-2009, 01:20 PM   #29 (permalink)
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First off, you can't "scale" the grille from drawings or pics to suit your car. Even if the principle worked (which I don't believe), the Reynolds number would be wrong and you haven't accounted for the rest of the shape of the nose.

I'm with cmroseberry -- I don't believe the theory that the flow splits differently based on speed. There's nothing in aerodynamic theory or practice that would support this. Yes, I am an aerospace engineer.
Most egg-salad. I am going to ask my Dad. He worked on Apollo, so I will get (yet) another engineer's opinion.

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