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Old 10-03-2017, 08:19 PM   #188
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Originally Posted by Mr Nerd View Post
Jesus Christ. Do you own a car?

No one uses actual wind tunnels these days, not even the car manufacturers(who would be using stock tires).
Bull. If no one used wind tunnels, why is Windshear booked for months? Honda, an OEM las I checked, just invested $124million in a new tunnel.

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use a suite of software that simulates a real wind tunnel to 100% accuracy but with more detailed data than a real tunnel.
Again, bull. We use a much more expensive suite of software, and are always working to make it more accurate. Part of that is correlating the CFD to the wind tunnel data.

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There are a few different programs out there. I use Autodesk Flowdesign. And trust me, none of them are cheap kid.
At $210, per Autodesk, a year, that is CHEAP! The electric bill for the cooling system, for our CFD cluster, is bigger than that
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