The result was neither a pure fin nor a pure interrupted surface. It was an where the extension itself was the strategy.
On the final night before the deadline, a junior technician named Sven noticed something odd. He overlaid Elara's stress-temperature map onto Viktor's computational fluid dynamics simulation. The hot spots in Elara's design aligned perfectly with the vortex cores in Viktor's.
For the first time in seventeen years, they looked at the same screen, not at each other's throats.