Performance-Sports
Racing car aerodynamics: Aerodynamic interaction between a wing and wheels
What is the influence of an upstream-mounted wing on the aerodynamic characteristics of a wheel and vice versa? How does the aerodynamic interaction between these components of the configuration depen....
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Racing car aerodynamics: Wheel aerodynamics
Fourty percent of the total drag on a Formula 1 car comes from the wheels. Wheels have an influence on the aerodynamics of the car as a whole, the front and rear wings, the under-body and the diffuser....
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Racing car aerodynamics: Large-scale source term modelling of vortex generation
For efficiency/affordability, the wind tunnel testing is expensive and comprehensive testing is impractical.Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is useful while adapting grids are difficult and time con....
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