Mayf, no need to be sorry but what happened to your
entrepreneurial spirit? Sure, models are not the
correct way to solve for CP but what is your
alternative? It has to be better than trial and error.
I don't know your background so you may possess
experience that feeds deep intuitive analysis. What I
do know is that academic rocketeers operate at an
entirely different level than most hobbyists. To find
simple methods published side-by-side with detailed
empiricism is not to be ignored.
The truly great thing about LSR is that we are free to
approach these same problems any way we feel is best.
See you on the salt in 2004,
John
--- DrMayf <drmayf@teknett.com> wrote:
> Sorry, but the model method is far, far, far too
> simplified. Does not
> account for the effects of air flow under the car,
> nor the curved surfaces
> of the body. Doesn't even really work for a missile
> becaus eof the real and
> true parasitic drag along with form drag. Cars are
> very complex aero
> vehicles///far worse than any airplane or missile.
>
> mayf
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