A New Development in Automotive Wind Tunnels

ATZautotechnology - Tập 5 - Trang 50-52 - 2005
John Lacey1
1Aero Systems Engineering, USA

Tóm tắt

While automotive companies are needing better aerodynamic data, the wind tunnel industry has not done much basic research into the known limitations of the wind tunnel, until now.

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