lamnar boundary layer on vehicles?
lamnar boundary layer on vehicles?
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Hello,
I'm wondering if laminar boundary layers occur on vehicle bodies. Gernerally Reynolds numbers in scale wind tunnels are relatively high. I know that there are stagnation points and areas of high pressure hence low speed, where theoretically boundary layers need to build up again.
Is the effect of droping drag over increasing Reynolds due to the fact that laminar boundary layer changes to turbulent boundary and hence separation occurs further downstream?
I'm wondering if laminar boundary layers occur on vehicle bodies. Gernerally Reynolds numbers in scale wind tunnels are relatively high. I know that there are stagnation points and areas of high pressure hence low speed, where theoretically boundary layers need to build up again.
Is the effect of droping drag over increasing Reynolds due to the fact that laminar boundary layer changes to turbulent boundary and hence separation occurs further downstream?





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Go to DreeseCode software and its listed.
I believe they produce airflow modelling software or something. He seemed very fluent in being able to answer the question possibly
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