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Tuesday, August 04, 2015

Ferrari, cheating, and pop-off valves

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The September 2015 issue of Motorsport Magazine contains an interesting interview with erstwhile McLaren and Ferrari engineer, Gordon Kimba...
Tuesday, May 05, 2015

A history of porpoising

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Skirted ground-effect Formula 1 cars of the late 1970s and early 1980s were occasionally afflicted by a type of instability re...
Saturday, April 04, 2015

Optimal control theory and Ferrari's turbo-electric hybrid

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The Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, published an interesting paper in 2014 which appears to shed some light o...
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Monday, March 09, 2015

Adrian Newey and the bar-headed goose

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The April edition of Motorsport Magazine contains a fabulous F1 season preview from Mark Hughes, which includes the news that Adrian Newey ...
Tuesday, March 03, 2015

Driver core-skin temperature gradients and blackouts

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Whilst it is highly beneficial to reduce the surface-to-bulk temperature gradient of a racing-tyre, the same cannot be said for the cognitiv...
Monday, March 02, 2015

McLaren front-wing vortices, circa 2003

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Academic dissertations conducted in association with Formula 1 teams tend to be subject to multi-year embargoes. Hence, Jonathan Pegrum'...
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Thursday, February 19, 2015

Proof that Formula 1 was better in the past

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If you're a long-time Formula 1 fan, then the chances are that you believe the sport was better in the past. However, the chances are th...
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Monday, February 16, 2015

Lovelock and emergentism

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In James Lovelock's 2006 work, The Revenge of Gaia , he concludes the chapter entitled What is Gaia? with a description of the regulato...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Formula 1 turbines and enthalpy

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A couple of interesting developments occurred around the exhaust systems on both the Ferrari and Mercedes-engined Formula 1 cars in 2014:...
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Saturday, September 20, 2014

Coral reefs and vortices

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It seems that counter-rotating vortices are everywhere. The September 2014 edition of the Proceedings of the (US) National Academy of Scienc...
Sunday, August 31, 2014

CFD lessons from nuclear reactors

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The fissile fuel in a commercial nuclear reactor is typically packaged into rods, which are collected together in arrays and placed within ...
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