A device for controlling drag on a ground vehicle. The device consists of a porous skin mounted on the trailing surface of the ground vehicle. The porous skin may be separated from the vehicle surface by a distance of at least the thickness of the porous skin. Alternately, the trailing surface of the ground vehicle may be porous. The device minimizes the strength of the separation in the base and wake regions of the ground vehicle, thus reducing drag.
Base Passive Porosity for Drag Reduction
2001-09-11
Miscellaneous
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Base Passive Porosity for Drag Reduction
NTRS | 2001
|Base passive porosity for drag reduction
NTRS | 1994
|Base Passive Porosity for Drag Reduction
NTIS | 1994
|Base Passive Porosity for Vehicle Drag Reduction
NTRS | 2003
|Base Passive Porosity for Vehicle Drag Reduction
NTIS | 2003
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