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It's also more subtly curved than most people give it credit for. I know a guy that is creating 3D models of the truck for some people that want to simulate it
by 3pt14159 7y ago
It's also more subtly curved than most people give it credit for. I know a guy that is creating 3D models of the truck for some people that want to simulate it in simulated wind-tunnel. He was flabbergasted at how much they could keep the straight looking form while also smuggling in critical curvatures here and there to stop eddy currents from forming.
- r00fus 7y agoThis is interesting - all I see is angles - where is it curved?
- perl4ever 7y agoIt seems a lot less curved than any other angular car I've seen, say an early Lotus Esprit.
- whyaduck 7y agoLiterally the only curve I see on it is on the fascia.
- semi-extrinsic 7y agoI'm guessing you mean turbulent eddies (which form in a fluid) rather than eddy currents (which form inside metals subjected to changing magnetic fields). In any case, it's impossible to stop eddy currents from forming. Any car, even if it's as slippery as a LMP1 prototype, will generate lots of turbulent eddies. The question is, how bad will the drag coefficient be. And that's a question you won't be able to answer with simulations unless you have a few tens to hundreds of millions of CPU-hours lying around.
- 3pt14159 7y agoAh yes, sorry. You're right. I'm so used to thinking about computers that I flummoxed the two.
- lonelappde 7y agoDid you mean confused, not flummoxed?
- arbitrary_name 7y agoDoes it matter, pedant?
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- skrebbel 7y agoIt's called style.
- lonelappde 7y agoDid you mean turbulent eddies, rather than eddy currents?