[Fot] State of F1

[Shane Ingate]

Kas wrote:
> Wind tunnels have an amazing cost.  Some teams have two full size running 24
> hours a day.

That's interesting.  I would have thought that today all
aerodynamic and structure-loading modeling was done on a
computer. As Kas suggests, wind tunnels are expensive, but
computer modeling is dirt-cheap where an engineer can change
model parameters and make the calculations within minutes
that would otherwise necessitate a complete day in a wind tunnel.

Many models these days (I speak for hydrodynamic and sub-atomic
interactions in the far-field) use non-linear models.  I would not be
surprised if non-linear models were used in the simple case of
aerodynamics.

Shane Ingate in NM




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