Originally Posted by
tomato coupe
The model had all the riders with the same foot at the same position -- it creates an asymmetry.
I saw that after looking through the paper. Given the non-linearities, I wonder if his correction of averaging right and left side of the peloton is adequate. My issue with Blocken's work has always been he goes for volume (more riders, more cases, etc.) over depth (accuracy, margin of error, quantification of uncertainty,...). That said the results are probably more than qualitatively accurate.