After looking at how shapley these new sidepods are I decided to see how difficult it would be to model one, so I eyeballed the Blue Ferrari. It was rather easy to make, the only hard part is to make it look specifically like a certain one. Very simple though to make the basic shape, I still need to put in the inner ducting and play around with ferrari gills etc. This was a simple CFD run by me on a simple sidepod I made, so that I can find ways to tweake and improve it so that Russ Harrison can do a good spot on analysis, untill then you will get little images like these, but once Russ runs this it should be very cool. I have no promises of when it will happen, as he was about to get a new computer but problems have brought about a delay on the beasts arrival :(.
As you can see I only modeled a small portion of the car, left a huge opening in the back, and have no ducting inside, but none the less it is still intreging. The easiest way to describe what flow is going where, I will say that mainly the blueish flow is inside the body, and the redish-orangish is flowing around the outside. If anyone has any way of getting me some cross sections or something to help me draw a sidepod accurate to a certain car that would be incredible, but untill then I can only eyeball a car which is very difficult to make it even similar when dealing with pure mathamatical data. Hopefully this turns to be a pretty cool project. |
