Symscape

After reviewing the Caedium RANS Flow results posted in "CFD Analysis of an F1 in Schools Dragster," Brett Sizeland, Basilisk Performance team's chief designer, has been busy updating his F1 in Schools CO2 dragster design. Using the same geometry preparation process, physics setup, and post-processing, all within Caedium's unified simulation environment, we were able to rapidly perform the new simulation and extract the flow results presented here.

F1 in Schools is an international competition for student teams (aged 9-19) to design, analyze, build, and race CO2 jet-powered cars (dragsters). Beyond promoting Formula 1 (F1) to the next generation of fans, F1 in Schools aims to give a flavor of running an F1 team by exposing students to finance, marketing, and engineering. Of course the most exciting area (as in F1) is engineering, where students get to use state-of-the-art 3D CAD/CAM software to design and build their dragsters. Performance optimization through analysis of the dragster design is also encouraged, which inevitably leads to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).

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