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AEROFOIL ARTICLES

Below are some links to scans of some of the aerodynamics articles I've written for Racecar Engineering magazine. Forgive the image quality, but hopefully they're readable. Just click on the article thumbnails.

 

 

This feature covered a short CFD project done with FloWizard on the depth of rear end plates on a single element wing. If you though that 'deeper' was necessarily 'better', well this may make you re-think, and re-examine. About 0.9MB.

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This article documented the CFD project that went into the design of the wings ultimately used by our customer Dan Wasdahl to win the 2008 Tire Rack SCCA Solo 2 National Run Offs overall and to win his class again in 2009, and take yet another outright win in 2010. 1.1MB.
   

 

This piece was the first of two articles that went over some methods of obtaining aerodynamic information and data when you do not have access to a wind tunnel or CFD. 0.95MB.

   

 

This was the second of the two pieces on track test methods. 1.0MB

 

   

 

I was told that there hadn't been anything written on making best use of limited wind tunnel time, so this piece was the result. 0.94MB.

   

 

This Aerobytes column looked briefly at wing height on a Lotus Exige, as tested in the MIRA wind tunnel. 0.48MB.
   

 

And this article featured another FloWizard CFD study, this time using a simplified touring car model and examining wing height and angle versus downforce and drag. 0.95MB.
   

 

A revisit to the rear end plate depth project, with some interesting new findings and a slice of humble pie... About 0.86MB.


 

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