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Old 10-26-2007, 08:36 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by DGthe3 View Post
Nice. I like the bit about computational fluid dynamics at the end. Too bad its not going to be able to simulate a car very well for quite a while though. The shape is too complex and the resulting flow is too turbulent. I've done some engineering simulations on my computer for school, mainly stress analysis, and it puts a crazy load on the computer to do a low quality simulation. And that is for conditions that are easily understood. Fluids are extremely unpredictable.

Anyway, very cool video
They must be able to get some useful data with cfd, almost all the NASCAR teams are using it now.
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