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Old 04-24-2010, 12:05 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Wind tunnel videos

After looking through some flow videos, I decided to share a few here.

Here's one of a Mercedes sedan. It includes some flow around the mirror and the underside:







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Old 04-27-2010, 02:32 PM   #2 (permalink)
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sweet wish they had more of these videos for normal people cars
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Using a lipstick camera or webcam hooked up to a laptop computer, and some yarn tufting, it would be easy to get video of the effects of under trays, etc. as developed on this website.
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They rarely show the wheels which is the interesting area in my mind.

There is one photo of the Opel Calbra which shows for a split second the way air flows from the centre out toward the wheel at a steep angle which explains the placement of so may wheel spats.

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Here's another with a Dodge Charger Daytona:

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Hi I was doing some aerodynamic research study at work and founded this amazing website:

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There are huge amount of windtunnel videos, but the video called Flow Visualization: Aerodynamics of Truck vs. Nascar is so far my favorite. Now my plans are to built my own "water wind tunnel" becouse that was so wicked...

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