Competition Car Aerodynamics, New 3rd Edition: A Practical Handbook

McBeath, Simon

ISBN 10: 1845847768 / ISBN 13: 9781845847760

Verlag: Veloce Publishing, 2015

Beschreibung

Cover may have light wear, pages in very good condition and binding is sturdy; may have other light shelf wear or creases. May have notes or highlighting.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers EVV.1845847768.VG

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Competition Car Aerodynamics, New 3rd Edition: A Practical Handbook
• Verlag: Veloce Publishing
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1845847768
• ISBN-13: 9781845847760
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: very_good

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Inhaltsangabe

The field of aerodynamics has had an increasingly significant effect on performance enhancement over the past 50 years. Competition Car Aerodynamics 3rd Edition 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. 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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Simon McBeath is a life-long motorsport enthusiast and has been a competitor for over 30 years. Press officer for Gurston Down Speed Hillclimb, where he is also a Hillclimb School instructor, Simon also regularly contributes as a freelance writer to Racecar Engineering and other magazines. Aerodynamics articles have always been a speciality of Racecar Engineering, with its monthly column, ‘Aerobytes,’ launched in 2003, carrying out wind tunnel and CFD studies on a wide range of competition cars. Simon also provides an aerodynamics advisory service, SM AeRo Techniques.