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Wednesday, February 06, 2019

Assessing the nuclear winter hypothesis

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After falling into disrepute for some years, the nuclear winter hypothesis has enjoyed something of a renaissance over the past decade. In ...
Sunday, January 13, 2019

Thruxton British F3 1989

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The thickness of the atmospheric thermal boundary layer falls to a global minimum over Thruxton. Hence Thruxton is very cold. So much so, i...
Friday, January 11, 2019

Silverstone Tyre Test 1990

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Generally speaking, it was impossible to see a car with the naked eye at Silverstone. However, with the assistance of the world's best ...
Thursday, January 03, 2019

Formula One and Electro-Aerodynamics

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Most travelling Formula One engineers probably think that an 'ionic wind' is the result of over-indulgence at the end-of-season cur...
Monday, December 31, 2018

Andrew Ridgeley crashes at Brands

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It's the 1986 Cellnet Superprix, the rain is relentless, and it's dark, very dark. Too dark, in fact, for those amateur photographe...
Friday, December 28, 2018

Brands Hatch F3000 1987

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Second installment of the McCabism photographic archive. The place once again is Brands Hatch, this time for a round of the European F3000 ...
Sunday, December 23, 2018

Brands Hatch Tyre Test 1986

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Time to dip into the McCabism personal photographic archive. The occasion here is the 1986 pre-Grand Prix Tyre Test at Brands Hatch. Prope...
Thursday, July 19, 2018

Understanding tyre compound deltas

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Pirelli revealed at the beginning of the 2018 F1 season that it was using new software to help it choose the three tyre compounds availabl...
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Front-wing in yaw

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Armchair aerodynamicists might be interested in a 2015 paper, ' Aerodynamic characteristics of a wing-and-flap in ground effect and yaw...
Sunday, April 29, 2018

Local cosmography and the Wiener filter

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The local cosmic neighbourhood has recently been mapped in spectacular fashion by the Cosmicflows research programme, yielding papers in N...
Sunday, December 03, 2017

Neural networks and the neutron transport equation

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The Monte Carlo simulation technique was conceived at Los Alamos in the late 1940s by Stanislaw Ulam and John von Neumann with a specific...
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