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Old 03-25-2010, 10:34 PM   #60 (permalink)
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That's kind of funny, because the mesh that Caedium will generate is a (very high polygon count) surface polygon model.

Don't forget to call out accurate boundary conditions - wall below, far field above and to the sides.

I'll keep an eye on this thread, and I'll be thrilled if you can get better results from CFD than I did. If you get it working, you'll probably want to run many variants of the model through the simulation, and see how much drag certain design features add (test without the front wheel skirts, different ground clearances, etc).
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