Mercedes
All those little winglets, good lord.
How many super computers does Mercedes have?
Must been running cfd 24/7
Funnily enough, the computing power that teams are allowed to use is quite heavily restricted in F1. From a recent Ars Technica article:
For example, each Formula 1 team is only allowed to use 25 teraflops (trillions of floating point operations per second) of double precision (64-bit) computing power for simulating car aerodynamics. 25 teraflops isn't a lot of processing power, in the grand scheme of supercomputers: it's about comparable to 25 of the original Nvidia Titan graphics cards
That's really interesting. But how can they check it? It's not like wind tunnel that you can't hide in one designers bathroom.dougskullery wrote: ↑12 May 2017, 00:13Funnily enough, the computing power that teams are allowed to use is quite heavily restricted in F1. From a recent Ars Technica article:
For example, each Formula 1 team is only allowed to use 25 teraflops (trillions of floating point operations per second) of double precision (64-bit) computing power for simulating car aerodynamics. 25 teraflops isn't a lot of processing power, in the grand scheme of supercomputers: it's about comparable to 25 of the original Nvidia Titan graphics cards
It's not, check the Appendix 8 of the sporting regulations for details. Make sure you have pencil and paper handy, and are ready to read through it several times. It's convoluted because you can trade processing power for tunnel time and visa versa.
Meh, not really, I think this is the intended step in the car that just wasn't working right in wind tunnel/winter testing.
A diffuser only applies if you have something with a low pressure that you want to bring up to a higher pressure with minimal energy loss. I don't think that peice is positioned to be a front diffuser.. But never the less it would help the central section of the front wing and also under the nose.. Just another design of the guide vanes it seems.
I think what you will find is that because they where so far ahead in 2014-2016, they have been designing and testing way in advance.
Ok. No im confused... What the actual hell is that thing?
PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑12 May 2017, 02:43Ok. No im confused... What the actual hell is that thing?
It splits the air up top... Flattens the air below... While functioning as a guide vane and a vortex generator?!
It appears to create lift on it's trailng edge but i can bet it doesn't? Or maybe it does but the net benefit downstream makes up for it?!! Aw shucks someone put this thing in CFD!
It confused me too! .PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑12 May 2017, 02:43Ok. No im confused... What the actual hell is that thing?
It splits the air up top... Flattens the air below... While functioning as a guide vane and a vortex generator?!
It appears to create lift on it's trailng edge but i can bet it doesn't? Or maybe it does but the net benefit downstream makes up for it?!! Aw shucks someone put this thing in CFD!