Ground effect aerodynamics of race cars

Applied Mechanics Reviews

Volumn 59, Issue 1-6, 2006, Pages 33-48

  Zhang, Xin ^a   Toet, Willem ^b   Zerihan, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Honda Racing F1 Team   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAG; PRESSURE EFFECTS; RACING AUTOMOBILES; SPEED CONTROL;

DOWNFORCE GENERATION; GROUND EFFECT AERODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODELING;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 33845466851     PISSN: 00036900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2110263     Document Type: Review

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