Maximizing fuel efficiency of a vehicle is one of the prime areas of focus in the highly competitive automotive industry which requires development of efficient and optimized vehicle designs. External aero analysis using Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) techniques is widely used in the accurate estimation of an automotive vehicle’s drag coefficient, often critical in determining [...]

Cranfield Formula 1 Team is a group design project composed of five students, each of them being responsible for the design of one part of the vehicle. The present thesis deals with the front wing design. According to the time allowed to do the thesis and to learn the relevant software to use, three models [...]

This report discusses a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study performed on the 2002 Formula 3 car designed by Ralt. The work concentrated on the front wing geometry, and investigated the effects of rotating the front wing assembly, this was an attempt to manipulate the vortex shed from the front wing end plates, and rotate it [...]