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rotating wheel drag
This cropped up during the time spent with SAE Paper 2018-04-03. On a CdA basis:
1) the 5" airdam demonstrated a 4.14% drag increase with rotating wheels. 2) the 6" airdam demonstrated a 3.4% increase. 3) the 6.35", a 2.61% increase. 4) the 7", a 1.57% increase. 5) the 8" demonstrated a 2.3% drag 'reduction.' 6) the 9" demonstrated a 5.65% drag reduction. This would constitute one example in which the effects of a rotating-wheel wind tunnel investigation could not be predicted, nor expected in advance of testing. I believe MIRA or Coventry University experienced similar phenomena. 7) NASCAR race cars and Bonneville land speed record cars might provide some interesting quanta in light of the near-ground-contact airdams. |
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