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      11-05-2008, 11:23 PM   #82
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Originally Posted by lucid View Post
At the end of the day, BMW engineers have been thinking about all this much more than any one of us have been, and they are more qualified--meaning they have fluid dynamics experts working on the problem.
Yup. And nowadays it is almost all done with a computer using CFD (computational fluid dynamics), which of course is its own area requiring significant subject expertise to insure you don't have garbage in, garbage out.
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