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Ha! I thought that looked familiar!
Warszawa Ochota railway station
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01-30-2022, 07:58 AM
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That shape, the hyperbolic parabaloid, is not selected for aero reasons, but for structural elegance. The whole roof is in tension, so it can be as thin as a tent.
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01-30-2022, 02:18 PM
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In the time frame in discussion, Felix Candela and P. L. Nervi were using the shape, but I think Antoni Gaudi was decades earlier.
The superset is ruled surfaces: mathstat.slu.edu/escher/index.php/The_Geometry_of_Antoni_Gaudi#Ruled_Surfaces
One of my favorites, the Sagrada Familia orphanage roof is classified as 'other'.
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02-02-2022, 06:23 PM
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Styling, Fins, and Aerodynamics: Virgil Exner's 1957 Report and the Dart Concept Car
https://www.allpar.com/threads/styli...pt-car.227882/
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Fin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fin
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Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
Finlets may influence the way a vortex develops around the tail fin.
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Tuna locomotion: a computational hydrodynamic analysis of finlet function
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/d...rsif.2019.0590
Video better with the sound off.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1475840057806364679
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