After 80 Years of Smooth-Wing Dogma, Micro-Roughness Cut Drag 43%

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43.6%

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A Distributed Micro-Roughness surface reduced aerodynamic drag by up to 43.6% in experiments run by a Japanese team using a magnetic levitation wind tunnel at the University of Tohoku. The microscopic, canyon-like texture is designed to…