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Friday, December 30, 2011

Autocourse 2011-2012

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This year's Autocourse is printed on golf-leaf infused paper, using inks derived from the pituitary gland of the Himalayan gazelle. At ...
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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Red Bull and Immersed Boundary Methods

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Autosport 's recent 2011 Formula 1 review pointed out that whilst Red Bull were the first team to appear with exhausts blowing the outer...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Unleashing radiation in a wind-tunnel

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There are currently two primary methods of wind-tunnel flow visualisation: Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and Laser Doppler Anemometry (L...
Saturday, December 03, 2011

How Red Bull create streamwise vorticity

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Red Bull arrived in Singapore this year with interesting little mini-arches in their front-wing, where the inner end of each main plane meet...
Saturday, November 12, 2011

Linking Red Bull's fuel loads to McLaren's rear-wing

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One of the oddities of the 2011 Formula 1 season has been the contrast between the alacrity with which McLaren responded to the failure of t...
Monday, October 31, 2011

Airbox spillage and fluidics

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A couple of weeks ago, the FIA issued a Technical Directive to the Formula One teams, announcing that off-throttle blowing of the exhausts ...
Friday, October 28, 2011

Exhaust-blown diffusers in 2012?

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The 2012 Formula One regulations are intended to prohibit the use of exhaust-blown diffusers: stringent requirements have been placed on the...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Turbulence in Singapore

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The fourth Grand Prix of Singapore will take place this weekend, and whilst the city-state forms an impressive backdrop for a race, overtaki...
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Sunday, September 18, 2011

The Miles-Phillips Mechanism

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Two distinct mechanisms have been proposed to explain the means by which the wind is capable of generating waves and perturbations on the su...
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Saturday, September 17, 2011

The cost of motorsport books

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Here's a rather stark illustration of US/UK pricing differentials. The Autocourse 60 Years of Grand Prix Motor Racing is available on A...
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Monday, September 05, 2011

Formula 1 aerodynamics in the 1970s

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For most of the 1970s, there seems to have been a fundamental schism in the front-end aerodynamic concept of Formula 1 cars. Some of the car...
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