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8 unusual facts about Aerodynamics


2002 Canadian Grand Prix

Ferrari were also testing at Monza while BAR had a private session at Circuit Paul Ricard to test the new components to be used here and that includes a new engine, gearbox and aero package.

ASME Y14.41-2003

For example, ergonomic and aerodynamic contoured surfaces were extremely difficult to define on engineering drawings.

BBC Learning Zone

The acorn falls from a tree, while a number of identification processes take place, including a thermal image, a database match on computer, measurements taken, newspaper archives, aerodynamic investigation, cross section, 3D image and the name in different languages before the acorn finally falls to the ground and seeds to become an oak sapling.

Bicycle fairing

A bicycle fairing is a full or partial covering for a bicycle to reduce aerodynamic drag or to protect the rider from the elements.

Climate of Hawaii

Aerodynamic theory indicates that an island wind wake effect should dissipate within a few hundred kilometers and not be felt in the western Pacific.

Michael Lobo

His doctoral thesis on Transonic Aerodynamics earned him the "Young Scientist Award" from the Indian National Science Academy (INSA).

Thermowell

Thermowells are typically installed in piping systems and subject to both hydrostatic and aerodynamic forces.

Vehicle dynamics

Some attributes or aspects of vehicle dynamics are purely aerodynamic.


1983 Australian Sports Car Championship

The 1983 championship saw the debut of the Bap Romano owned and driven Kaditcha K583 Cosworth, the first Australian Group A Sports Car built with a closed top and Ground effects aerodynamics.

Air suspension

Tesla Motors offers an optional "Active Air Suspension" on the Model S to lower the vehicle for aerodynamics and increased range.

Arthur Roderick Collar

After graduating from Cambridge, Collar joining the Aerodynamics Department at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, where he worked on propellors, airship dynamics, wind-tunnel design, and especially on flutter and matrix analysis.

ATDynamics

It is recognized for the TrailerTail rear-drag aerodynamics technology, around which the company was founded.

Aurel Persu

Persu, a specialist in airplanes aerodynamics and dynamics, implemented his idea in 1922–1923 in Berlin, building an automobile with an incredibly low drag coefficient of 0.28 (same as a modern Porsche Carrera) or even 0.22 (still not reached by almost any modern production cars), depending on the source.

Bairstow's method

The algorithm first appeared in the appendix of the 1920 book "Applied Aerodynamics" by Leonard Bairstow.

Chyetverikov

With the departure of Richard, KB MOS was transferred to TsKB (Tsentrahl'noye konstrooktorskoye byuro - central construction bureau) TsAGI (Tsentrahl'nyy Aerodinamicheskiy i Ghidrodinamicheskiy Institoot- central aerodynamics and hydrodynamics institute) in the name of N. Ye.

Coefficient

# Lift coefficient (CL or CZ) (Aerodynamics) (dimensionless) - Relates the lift generated by an airfoil with the dynamic pressure of the fluid flow around the airfoil, and the plan-form area of the airfoil.

Dino Toso

He then obtained his masters in aerodynamics and flight at Cranfield University in the UK.

Elgé

Created at Bordeaux by Roger Louis Maleyre, a pioneer in the field of aerodynamics, it was very low and light, and was well streamlined; the cars used CIM engines.

Fokker D.XIII

It was a development of the Fokker D.XI with a new powerplant and considerably refined aerodynamics, and had been designed to meet the requirements of the clandestine flying school operated by the German Army at Lipetsk in the Soviet Union.

Freel Flying Wing

As a student of San Diego High School, in San Diego, California, Freel learned about aerodynamics under the instruction of LeTain Kittredge, in the aircraft rigging/woodshop class.

Fritz Fiedler

While Schleicher was at Munich on motorcycle development and the competition side of BMW motor car activity, Fiedler was at Eisenach in overall command of the car side of BMW, specialising in chassis, suspension and aerodynamic design and development.

Glasnik RV i PVO

Considering the quality and sourcing of data in aircraft aerodynamics, flight mechanics, guidance and control, materials, construction, propulsion systems, ground aids, aviation medicine, aviation law and regulations, as well as, news from other air forces, it gathered a substantial expert base.

Kenny Bernstein

Bernstein and former crew chief Dale Armstrong are often credited with making aerodynamics a key part of Funny Car design, with a series of Ford Tempos used during the 1984–86 seasons and a design loosely based on a Buick LeSabre, known as "the Batmobile", during the 1987 season.

Melvill Jones

After university he worked at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich in their workshop and was there until January 1911 when he joined in the Aerodynamics Department of the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington and then at Armstrong Whitworths where he worked on the design of airships until the outbreak of war in 1914.

Nissan R382

Although the previous R381 had shown its potential in terms of aerodynamics and reliability, the car had been unable to use the planned 600 hp 5954cc V12 engine that Prince was building for Nissan.

Opera window

These windows were usually non-functional; however, in the case of the AMC Matador coupe NASCAR racers, the small windows that came with the Barcelona II trim package actually helped to clean up the aerodynamics when such windows were open to the wind under racing conditions.

Pacific PR01

Most of the PR01's aerodynamics and design on a whole was based on Reynard's Formula 3000 car, with 'best guess' aerodynamics as the car had undergone none of the vital wind tunnel testing required to refine the car's aerodynamics.

Philip L. Roe

Initially he worked in the field of missile aerodynamics and later shifted to CFD and devised the Roe solver for numerical computation of compressible flows with shocks.

Physical coefficient

# Ballistic coefficient (BC) (aerodynamics) (units of kg/m²) - A measure of a body's ability to overcome air resistance in flight.

Saab 21

:Planned version armed with three 20 mm nose guns, radar in the starboard boom, improved aerodynamics and Daimler-Benz DB 605E or Rolls-Royce Griffon engines.

Sayers S.C.W.

Their product was influenced by the Hannover Vampyr which had won the recent German competition at the Wasserkuppe but there were significant differences in both construction and aerodynamics.

Skycraft Scout

Using sources referenced from the library at Sydney Technical College and Hurstville local Library he built up a working knowledge of aerodynamics.

SmartBird

SmartBird is an autonomous ultralight unmanned aerial vehicle created by Festo's Bionic Learning Network with an emphasis on better aerodynamics and manoeuvrability.

Walter J. D. Annand

Following the end of the war Annand took up a post with Rolls-Royce in 1947 becoming, before his thirtieth birthday, head of the aerodynamics section, involved with military research.

Walter S. Diehl

Walter Stuart Diehl (1893-1976), an American naval officer and pioneer in aerodynamics and aeronautical design.


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