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Looking for a graph -- interference drag on interior corner

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addaon

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Hey all, I have no reason to believe this graph exists, and didn't see it flipping through Hoerner, but it seems like it should...

I'm looking for something that looks at the interior angle of a "right angle" extrusion style channel on the X axis, and something correlated to drag on the Y axis. Basically, given that a 90° interior angle causes some amount of interference drag, how much worse is it to tighten that to 85°? How much better if it can be extended to 95°? My intuition is that this is a pretty non-linear system and even a few degrees beyond 90° is worth some effort, but I'd really love some data to go with that intuition.
 
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