Front wing design of formula SAE racing car based on CFD

Author

Peng-fei, Gou ; Ying-chao, Zhang ; Ke-cheng, Pan ; Jing, Zhao ; Lu-yao, Zhou ; Rui, Zhang ; Fei, Qin

Author_Institution

Coll. of Automotive Eng., Jilin Univ., Changchun, China

fYear

2011

fDate

15-17 April 2011

Firstpage

5047

Lastpage

5050

Abstract

Formula SAE-China will be held the first time in September, 2010. How to design a suitable front wing for a Formula SAE race car is discussed in this paper. First we choose a series of front wings and study their dynamics property in different attack angle by the method of CFD. Then we put two or three wings together to be assemble wings and study their property. The results are compared and analyzed together, and we choose the suitable one. The wing is finally successfully designed, which can perfectly achieve the design object. It can improve the dynamics and steering stability of the racing car. The paper can be used as the guide to design the wing for Formula SAE in the future.

Keywords

automobiles; automotive components; automotive engineering; design; mechanical stability; steering systems; CFD; China; Formula SAE; Formula SAE race car; SAE racing car; front wing design; steering stability; wing assembly; Aerodynamics; Computational fluid dynamics; Industries; Stability analysis; USA Councils; Vehicle dynamics; Aerodynamics; CFD; Formula SAE; Front Wing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electric Information and Control Engineering (ICEICE), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8036-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEICE.2011.5776885

Filename

5776885