race action: World Solar Challenge and aero
Here's some footage, illustrating the challenges for extremely light aero structures under racecourse conditions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slxzf3duMMs |
Now that's real eco-modding.
And relevant to this thread: ecomodder.com/forum/showthread.php/why-dont-cars-have-wings-partially-take-weight-39409.html |
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Yeah. It's tough to watch the crashes knowing the hardships all team members endure just to participate, all their work lost in a moment.
The importance of coefficients of adhesion and implications of compromising lateral acceleration g-forces which can be sustained at the road interface is really rammed home. I tip my hat to all of them. They're the stuff that Tesla's made of. Literally! |
LOL, I was just going to mention that this is evidence for why cars aren't airplanes.
Don't know why the embedded time skip isn't working, but skip to 11:48 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slxzf3duMMs&t=11m48s |
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That's an interesting challenge.
I wonder if we could assemble a team ecomodder :D There is quite some room for improvement to be seen on these vehicles and their driving strategies. |
I would believe their aerodynamic theory is a bit in front of even Aerohead, or Julian. Most schools have compute power that dwarfs anything I see here. They definitely have a better manufacturing support system. But we're experienced. Hmmm.
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We wonder if you could assemble a team ecomodder.
...and campaign the length of Oztralia. The most I have seen is springing for an hour of wind tunnel time in Utah. Piotrsko -- I've given it some thought. https://ecomodder.com/forum/member-f...belly-tank.png Just slap some panels on it. |
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I've also seen quite a few things there that are inducing way more drag than they need to. Especialy the hard transitions on the catamaran designs are inducing quite some additional drag. |
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There isn't realy any good place to mount the solar cells to it. But we would likely have untill 2023 to come up with something as well as building it. |
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