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Competition Car Aerodynamics 3rd Edition - Simon McBeath

Competition Car Aerodynamics 3rd Edition

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Buch | Hardcover
320 Seiten
2015
Veloce (Verlag)
978-1-84584-776-0 (ISBN)
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From historical background to state of the art techniques, and with chapters covering airdams, splitters, spoilers, wings, underbodies and myriad miscellaneous devices, Competition Car Aerodynamics 3rd Edition also features in-depth case studies from across the motorsport spectrum to help develop a comprehensive understanding of the subject.
The field of aerodynamics has had an increasingly significant effect on performance enhancement over the past 50 years. Competition Car Aerodynamics 3rd Edition continues the practical, hands-on approach of its popular predecessors to cover all aspects of motorsport aerodynamics and features yet more CFD and wind tunnel project material and case studies.
Aerodynamic theory is tackled in a comprehensive yet comprehensible way by author Simon McBeath, who has been granted unprecedented access to state of the art computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques, as well as regular access to the MIRA full-scale wind tunnel in the UK. Photographs, graphs, CFD-generated images and wind tunnel data – much of which has appeared in the successful Aerobytes series in Racecar Engineering – are used to explain with unrivalled clarity how aerodynamic performance benefits are obtained in practice. With case studies from Formula 1, sports prototypes, Formula 3, GT and saloon cars, club single seaters and karts, this book will appeal to anyone, whether a designer, competitor, student or armchair enthusiast, wishing to gain an understanding of aerodynamics and how it can benefit the performance of all types of competition cars.

Simon McBeath is a life-long motorsport enthusiast and has been a competitor for over 30 years. Press officer for Gurston Down Speed Hillclimb, where he is also a Hillclimb School instructor, Simon also regularly contributes as a freelance writer to Racecar Engineering and other magazines. Aerodynamics articles have always been a speciality of Racecar Engineering, with its monthly column, ‘Aerobytes,’ launched in 2003, carrying out wind tunnel and CFD studies on a wide range of competition cars. Simon also provides an aerodynamics advisory service, SM AeRo Techniques.

Chapter 1 Historical background Chapter 2 Out of thin air Chapter 3 Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Chapter 4 Airdams, splitters and spoilers Chapter 5 Wings Chapter 6 Underbody aerodynamics Chapter 7 Miscellaneous devices Chapter 8 Removing (some of) the guesswork Chapter 9 A few case studies Chapter 10 Final thoughts Appendices Glossary of terms and abbreviations Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 23.4.2015
Sprache englisch
Maße 169 x 233 mm
Gewicht 1154 g
Themenwelt Natur / Technik Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe Auto / Motorrad
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Motor- / Rad- / Flugsport
Technik Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
Technik Maschinenbau
ISBN-10 1-84584-776-8 / 1845847768
ISBN-13 978-1-84584-776-0 / 9781845847760
Zustand Neuware
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