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Horizontal buoyancy in a wind tunnel is a spurious drag caused by
Answer: B
The tunnel's own wall boundary layers thicken along the test section, contracting the effective area and producing a slight fall in pressure downstream. That gradient pushes the model backwards exactly as buoyancy would, and it must be subtracted from the measured drag. Slightly diverging walls are often used to remove it.
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