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Old 02-26-2021, 08:56 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Window screen used as a skin on vehicles sensitive to crosswinds ?

Has the topic of window screen used as a skin on vehicles been discussed recently ?
This provides a surface for air to skip over, but also one that allows crosswinds to pass through.

There is a large metal chainlink fence at my job.
It takes maybe 30 lbs of force to close it, yet even a moderate breeze will cause it to slide on its railing and slam shut.

I know some of you sail boats.
I had no idea that wind would have so much pull on such a small surface area.

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I've always wondered about this. Mainly for bellypans.

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Years ago I posted a link on Ecomodder to a study that showed a cattle truck with round holes at the front of the sidewalls was better than the rectangular horizontal slots that are more common (at preventing suffocation of the livestock!)

Window screen is flexible. Were you thinking of using it for daylight openings?

It's all holes. Maybe a perf metal with some arbitrary hole size and spacing is optimal?

So many questions. When I was in high school and college I worked summers in a feed & seed mill. They had stacked graduated stainless steel screens about 4x6 feet in a shaker for sorting mill run into different seeds. hole sizes below an inch or so.

The place burnt down a decade or two ago.
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Aren't dimples on a golf ball massive screen holes?
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I was actually thinking about how maybe you could use it on the belly pan to cover the exhaust. Maybe at speed the air would flow past while at slower speeds it would be able to breath?
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I was actually thinking about how maybe you could use it on the belly pan to cover the exhaust. Maybe at speed the air would flow past while at slower speeds it would be able to breath?
Like a breath of fresh air, I would breathe a sigh of relief, if the breathing would be improved by the window screen.

The good thing about window screen, is that even if it rips and falls from the underside of the car, it doesn't have enough mass to damage anything.

It would have to be replaced often though if driven on roads with lots of debris.
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I've always wondered about this. Mainly for bellypans.



Years ago I posted a link on Ecomodder to a study that showed a cattle truck with round holes at the front of the sidewalls was better than the rectangular horizontal slots that are more common (at preventing suffocation of the livestock!)

Window screen is flexible. Were you thinking of using it for daylight openings?

It's all holes. Maybe a perf metal with some arbitrary hole size and spacing is optimal?

So many questions. When I was in high school and college I worked summers in a feed & seed mill. They had stacked graduated stainless steel screens about 4x6 feet in a shaker for sorting mill run into different seeds. hole sizes below an inch or so.

The place burnt down a decade or two ago.
I always thought the best everyday common material to have this property, was concrete, in that it has far greater strength in compression vs tension, approx 10:1.
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Aren't dimples on a golf ball massive screen holes?
Only if it was a 'whiffle' ball. Porous.
Dimples provide a critical roughening, to trigger transition to a turbulent boundary layer, off the clubhead, at around 110-mph.
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Has the topic of window screen used as a skin on vehicles been discussed recently ?
This provides a surface for air to skip over, but also one that allows crosswinds to pass through.

There is a large metal chainlink fence at my job.
It takes maybe 30 lbs of force to close it, yet even a moderate breeze will cause it to slide on its railing and slam shut.

I know some of you sail boats.
I had no idea that wind would have so much pull on such a small surface area.
No porous surface can support airflow.
If the entire perimeter of the vehicle's underbody is 'dammed' ( airdams, rocker panels, and rear facia, dead air will be trapped within that footprint, and active flow will skip over ( under ) this stagnant, dead air, which travels along, like the forward stagnation bubble.
Cooling air, from the engine bay will contaminate this area. EVs have the advantage.
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There would be a lot of compromises rendering such approach unsuitable. Even aircraft that still resorts to a fabric skin have it sealed, not leaving much room for the wind to go through. And for a car, other matters such as thermal comfort may be accounted, so even though a skin that allows some air flow in a simpler vehicle without HVAC might seem good in a summer afternoon it would become a PITA during winter or rainy days.
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Only if it was a 'whiffle' ball. Porous.
Dimples provide a critical roughening, to trigger transition to a turbulent boundary layer, off the clubhead, at around 110-mph.
And one reason "whiffle" golf balls are so suitable for enclosed indoor space golf ball practice, with its extremely high drag.

I personally can't vision what the benefits here are with pourous aero surfaces like fence/screen, but then, I here to learn.

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