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I did not build a settling chamber. To minimize jets, I placed the wind tunnel on the upstream side of the fan and built a star straightener at the inlet of the fan to prevent a...
Yes, the disks are flat on the back. I am not going to use them for a fairing just to test the wind tunnel and sensors. From what I read, the Cd of a flat disk is nearly constant from Reynolds numbers of 10^3 to 10^6 and they are easy to make.
After searching the net for help designing recumbent bicycle fairings, I found good technical information about fully faired bikes used to break land speed records but there was very little technical information about partial fairings (windscreens). It seems that most people who post have...
