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Old 09-19-2022, 12:48 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
None of that information addresses the specifics.
Vekke would have had to pay 23,000 Euros for the Solidworks CFD package.
A three-month rental was 2,300-Euro.
And his school may have been providing his work station.
According to Anthony Jameson, McDonnel Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, just solving a wing section required 294,912 cells, requiring a solution for 1,474,560 unknowns.
EXA POWERFLOW required almost 48-hours run time, on a 130-core processor, for a single iteration of a Tesla.
Where do we get the billion-cell 3D laser-scan/ data-cloud of our test car?
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