Overlap Triangle

Understood but..the air velocity is number one and the cams job is to control the velocity of the air through the port. The ability of a specific engine combination to use what the port is capable of is probably why some engines make more power than others with the same head. Using the port length and CC's you can calculate the average size of the port. Then using the bore and piston speed you can calculate the air velocity at each degree then in turn calculate the average port velocity that the engine is creating or demanding through a given port. If that number is too low or too high then power will be less than optimum.

Again, the math has to have assumptions.

IMO, air flow isn’t that important when selecting a cam IF the builder has a grasp on what the heads should be for the application like I pointed out above.

You wouldn’t put fully ported B1 heads on a 408 inch big block with 9:1 compression and a peak power rpm of 6k would you? I know I wouldn’t do that.

Nor would I build a 632 big block with 915 castings (or any other garbage head like that) with 15:1 compression and peak power at 8500.

The math can’t account for poor engine building.