Has anyone (or does anyone know of a team) done a full evaluation of an aerodynamics package from a points perspective and made the decision NOT to run aero? I can fully understand not having the...
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Type: Posts; User: andyman61
Has anyone (or does anyone know of a team) done a full evaluation of an aerodynamics package from a points perspective and made the decision NOT to run aero? I can fully understand not having the...
No tunnels this year for Missouri S&T. That's not to say that it wasn't looked at, but the package you saw at VIR was the best configuration for the car this year. As for specific reasons why, I'll...
i've got an 89 240sx. it's a piece of crap, the wiring is all messed up, the suspension makes all kind of cool clunking sounds. but it's a blast to drive, especially in the rain/snow. i'm planning...
Something to keep in mind when looking at ground effects in a wind tunnel (either front wing or tunnels) is the need for a moving ground plane for truly accurate results. Granted, at our speeds this...
We're using Fluent for CFD and Gambit for meshing. Fluent is pretty straight foward, I thought Gambit was by far the harder program of the two to get used to.
Ah the aero debate again...
First off, to answer the original post, look at small light aircraft. A lot of the methods they use can be used for FSAE wings. I'm not saying it's what we do, but...
Competition Car Downforce and Competition Car Aerodynamics, both by Simon McBeath, are great introductory books. I've read the former and not the latter, but CCD gives some good basic equations and...
More importantly, are we gonna have somewhere to watch the Hungarian GP from?
if you haven't started yet, i'm in
aadpn6 at umr dot edu
10th on a super tight auto-x course and fastest raw time on an "open" endurance course...imagine what she'll do on a nationals course! I'd really like to see UTA there and have the showdown of the...
actually that video is from an alumni of the team with one of the mid or late 90's cars he bought from the team. he added his own wings after he bought it.
this definately isn't a fair comparison...
video of same car with and without wings
and people still ask if the aero package works. granted our courses are slower, but i'll let you be the judge.
Start by reading, a lot of reading. A good starter book would be "Competition Car Downforce" by Simon McBeath (sp?). It's a good intro book, but very general in a lot of senses. If you get through...
Like mtg said, no comment on actual downforce numbers...sorry!
As far as testing goes, yes we've had the privledge to use Ford's wind tunnel in Detriot for the past two years. We've gotten a lot...
I'd appreciate a copy of the paper if you could send it to aadpn6 at umr.edu
We haven't done any wing research yet for the 2006 car, but I'm sure we'll have started by the time the summer's over. ...