Racecar Engineering

Choosing CFD carefully

Despite the progress made in computational methods in the past decade, there is still a level of compromise required by the CFD engineer in determining how best to model the real world. While the aerospace industry has developed highly specific and efficient models for its streamlined bodies, the automotive industry has almost entirely transitioned to a physically accurate, but more expensive option of resolving large-scale turbulence in both time and space. Due to the influence of large areas of

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