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The boundary chosen by McLaren on the basis of computational fluid dynamics simulations, and the testing of scale models in the wind-tunnel, appears to be under-performing on the race-track.
Archive 2009-03-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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Cambridge Science Festival MIT throws open some labs and demonstrates a wind-tunnel project, blimps race and kids build robots, while women in science discuss their work—as a nine-day festival starts.
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Even in numerical computer simulations and wind-tunnel testing, the presence of turbulence in a viscous fluid, and the scale-dependent nature of turbulence, entail that such representations of the real-world can be misleading.
Archive 2009-03-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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Cuneo got more time with the Night Train in the offseason, putting it through wind-tunnel testing to fine-tune its aerodynamics and finally giving it a proper paint job.
Can Steven Holcomb and 'Night Train' reach victory lane? 2010
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He has had great help with wind-tunnel tests and won the Luxembourg national TT championship a few days before this Tour started.
Inside the Tour: This is not your typical Tour de France time trial 2010
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It's like a Diamondvision in the shape of wind-tunnel.
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Derek Fitzgerald of Sharon, Pennsylvania is an Ultimate Speed crew chief who uses high-tech design help like wind-tunnel testing.
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It's like a Diamondvision in the shape of wind-tunnel.
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Among his verbal felicities this year, delivered in the purest Geordie: ‘Taylor is more intense than a Bedouin tribe’, and ‘playing Taylor is like trying to eat candyfloss in a wind-tunnel’.
Bullseye Britain 2010
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Among his verbal felicities this year, delivered in the purest Geordie: ‘Taylor is more intense than a Bedouin tribe’, and ‘playing Taylor is like trying to eat candyfloss in a wind-tunnel’.
Bullseye Britain 2010
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