[SPAM] Re: Re: Larry, I mis-spoke (Notching the piston forpower)

[rocco16 at sbcglobal.net (Larry Fry)]

> There's FAR more to this topic than meets the eye, especially at an
uneducated level.  IMO you'd
> have to have significant study in to understand what, when, where, and why
you want one kind of
> flow (laminar, turbulent, or transitional) over another, what it does for
you and against you, how
> to obtain/avoid it, etc.
>
> In the end analysis, I jes' don't know.
>
> What I *do* know is this: unless you have comprehensive knowledge of a
bunch of stuff (Reynolds
> Number, Bernoulli effect, drag coefficients, the forces on moving shapes
and what constitutes
> their value vs. velocity, Prandtl's boundary layer, etc. etc. etc. then
comparing golf balls,
> intake tracts, piston crowns, boat hulls, under-vehicle cladding, dented
airplanes, etc. is all
> just of bunch of fairy dust.
> Ron

And this is probably the most sensible thing any of us have said about it.
Larry
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