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Drag Reduction Technologies
Drag reduction is vital to achieving speed and fuel efficiency. The CAFE 400 races of the 1980's inspired many innovations in drag reduction that are covered in the CAFE 400 reports under "Research & Publications" on this website. There are a great number of resources on this topic and we here present some of our favorites. The designer must attend to issues of laminar flow, cooling drag, interference drag, leakage drag, induced drag, wetted area and parasite drag. As more papers on this topic become available to us, we shall post them.
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