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3d Cfd On An Open Wheel Race Car Front Wing In Ground Effects, Thomas A. Price
3d Cfd On An Open Wheel Race Car Front Wing In Ground Effects, Thomas A. Price
Aerospace Engineering
The purpose of the report is to investigate the ability of the Fluent 6.3 k-ε Realizable turbulence model with standard wall functions to model the flow around the front wing of Cal Poly’s 2008 Formula SAE car. The three primary areas of interest are ground effects, the wing wheel interaction, and the wing tip vortices. Fluent was successful at modeling the increase suction from the ground effects, and the upwash due to the wing tip vortices. The results also displayed how the high pressure region in front of the tire propagates forward and interacts with the pressure distribution around the …