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It's great to see more people taking a look at Aero at the club racing level. It's definitely the best performance per dollar.



Do you mean to say you measured the aero balance of the car in...

I feel like every Formula car in every series is now "designed and optimized using the latest CFD technology," but I have this suspicion that what it really means is "we put wings on the car." There...

So moving suspension, tires, steering, etc. are ok. Moving wings are too dangerous? :confused:

It's a good idea, but how much pitch will you really see? You can look up "thin airfoil theory" to roughly approximate how much 2-D CL you can expect per degree of change. Then cut that number down...

"Ram air" isn't going to get you much. You can quickly look at atmospheric pressure (101325Pa) and pressure due to "ram effect" (½*1.225*V^2 (in m/s)) to see that ram air is a very small effect...

You can't say if you used CFD/wind tunnel or not? I think everyone already knows about CFD, I don't think it's proprietary anymore ;)

I agree that no club racer could find openFOAM useful, but as costs go down it will be more and more affordable to hire specialists to do it.

And thanks for the feedback on the paper! I didn't...

I use openFOAM. It's great code, and the mesher (snappyhexmesh) is good as well. BUT, it is VERY difficult to use. It can do rotating wheels, moving ground planes, radiators and cooling flows, etc....

Whether you are a CFD expert or not, push the guys running your analysis to justify the way they've done it, particularly meshing. The use of expensive software or hardware does not automatically...