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Race Car Aerodynamics - Designing for Speed

Au cours des 15 dernières années, l'auteur Joseph Katz a été impliqué dans le développement aérodynamique dans les domaines les plus compétitifs du sport automobile d'aujourd'hui. De la Formule 1 à l'Indy Car, en passant par les courses de dragsters et de berlines, ce livre fournit des explications claires aussi bien pour les ingénieurs souhaitant améliorer leurs compétences en conception, que pour les passionnés désireux de comprendre comment leurs voitures préférées vont vite.

Katz explique :
- Comment l'aérodynamique permet de gagner des courses.
- Pourquoi l'appui est plus important que l'aérodynamisme et la réduction de la traînée.
- Concevoir des ailes et des venturis : ce qui fonctionne et ce qui ne fonctionne pas.
- Conceptions de soufflerie, méthodes et résultats : ce que vous pouvez et ne pouvez pas croire.
- Définitions complètes des termes, avec des équations et des exemples fournis pour déterminer les principaux paramètres aérodynamiques tels que les coefficients de traînée, de portance et de force latérale, la viscosité des fluides ou les corrections de soufflerie.

De nombreux exemples utilisant des voitures de course spécifiques, des prototypes basés sur des voitures de série et des conceptions à roues ouvertes.

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Competition Car Aerodynamics - A Practical Handbook (3rd Edition)

The field of aerodynamics has had an increasingly significant effect on performance enhancement over the past 50 years. "Competition Car Aerodynamics" continues the practical, hands-on approach of its popular predecessors to cover all aspects of motorsport aerodynamics and features yet more CFD and wind tunnel project material and case studies.

Aerodynamic theory is tackled in a comprehensive yet comprehensible way by author Simon McBeath, who has been granted unprecedented access to state of the art computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques, as well as regular access to the MIRA full-scale wind tunnel in the UK.

Pages du livre "Competition Car Aerodynamics - A Practical Handbook (3rd Edition)"

Photographs, graphs, CFD-generated images and wind tunnel data - much of which has appeared in the successful Aerobytes series in Racecar Engineering - are used to explain with unrivalled clarity how aerodynamic performance benefits are obtained in practice.

With case studies from Formula 1, sports prototypes, Formula 3, GT and saloon cars, club single seaters and karts, this book will appeal to anyone, whether a designer, competitor, student or armchair enthusiast, wishing to gain an understanding of aerodynamics and how it can benefit the performance of all types of competition cars.

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How to Build a Succesful Low-cost Rally Car (Veloce SpeedPro)

This book sets out in graphic detail a hundred tips that cost very little but which will transform your car. For example, how a wire coat-hanger transforms an exhaust system so that it can survive the Sahara Desert, how a tube of bathroom silicone sealer waterproofs an engine, and how a garden chain ensures you don't break the engine-mountings.

Simple, cost-effective, basic and reliable tips to ensure any rally car stands a chance of reaching the finishing line. From the lanes of Devon at night, to romping the wilderness of Mongolia, this book is full of illustrated detailed tips, as well as pictures of typical low cost cars setting out on international events.

If you are planning any road-based rally, don't even think of leaving home before you've reading this book and implementing the tried and tested mods it describes so well.

Pages du livre "How to Build a Succesful Low-cost Rally Car"

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The Leading Edge - Aerodynamic Design of Ultra-streamlined Land Vehicles

"The Leading Edge" summarizes the aerodynamic design and construction issues of solar cars and ultralight land vehicles. Author Goro Tamai draws on his own experience in designing solar cars at MIT to produce a book for the ground-up streamlined land-vehicle designer or constructor, as well as for the solar/electric/ultralight vehicle enthusiast.

As with any engineering problem, the "best" body shape for solar cars, HPVs, or Electrathoners is not the body of absolute lowest drag. The vehicle system, including the driver, chassis, and energy/drive system must work in concert to produce the maximum output.
"The Leading Edge" will help designers quantify the trade-offs, and make logical decisions.

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