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Al,
I'm in agreement with TJ on this one. Tuft test is
definitely in order. I did not realize that the gear door and wheel fairing were
where they are. Even if the transition is fairly smooth, the opening at the
wheel and the gaps in the door are going to make a mess in the area aft of the
door. Think little jets of air from all the gaps. This will trip the boundary
layer and make it much thicker than normal. It would have to be fully
sealed (air tight) around the gear door to stop this.
Any high pressure that the open wheel well develops
will squirt out around the door.
I would test to see how bad the flow is loused up
around the gear door with some oil or tufts. You may find that sealing the
fairing up improves things a lot.
Sealing the gap around the cooler certainly can't
hurt things.
Interested to see how the VG's and gap seal improve
things.
Armchair QB in action here ;-)
Monty
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