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Laminar??

Posted By: mike allen
Date: Tuesday, 30 November 1999, at 2:47 p.m.

> Turbulant at racing speeds. I believe so.

You know, as I was strippin surfyak last night, I was thinking about this - but from a totally ignorant backwards way. If the flow was mostly turbulant at racing speed, I think that the big boys would put lots of hardware and technology into taming and shaping a turbulent flow. But the design moves seem to be tiny and minimal - that to me implies that it most likely is mainly laminar flow and there fore the use of turbulators would in fact do as you first said - mainly add drag.

Turbulators would only be, therefore, effective in transition situations whatever these are. And at planing transitions do turbulators turn into ventilators?

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Laminar??
mike allen -- Tuesday, 30 November 1999, at 2:47 p.m.

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