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[paavoova]

Perhaps ignorance on my part, but: why do they require highspeed cameras and laser illumination to figure this out in 2018? Shouldn't physics by able to model such a relatively simply structure and how air would move through and around it?

[coldtea → paavoova]

"Relatively simply structures" can be nigh impossible to model...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem

[bcOpus → paavoova]

Fluid dynamics is hard and a simulation can only work with the inputs and parameters you set it up with.