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Old 08-11-2012, 12:19 PM   #18 (permalink)
examorph
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Hello, I am back, this project has not been started yet and I have been very busy lately so have had no time to do much extra work on it but now I finally have a bit more time to spend thinking about how I should design the car.
I have modelled the car and have ran some wind tunnel tests on it and got some results but dont really know how to read them....the wind tunnel test results show me the drag coeficient (what I wanted) but this is on a graph over time, as time pass's the drag coeficient changes, the velocity of the air going over the vehicle also changes, this is strange because I set the value for the air speed and it should be constant, so I dont understand why the drag coeficient and air speeds are changing, any ideas?

The graph I see is the exact same graph as the one shown at the bottom of this picture:

http://gfxspeak.com/wp-content/uploa...6541711650.jpg

and here is the 2d slice air flow image I see constantly changing with time:

http://gfxspeak.com/wp-content/uploa...6541170698.jpg

Please note, these images were from google and are not of the car I have designed, I will get some images of that soon.

Last edited by examorph; 08-11-2012 at 12:35 PM..
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