Hi All,
I posted this question over on http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk, but there's a different demographic here so I'll ask here also...
Currently I'm working overseas from where the car is and we won't be back there for some time so I'm dealing with the enforced separation by working on the body design and finalizing everything else anything else I can think of.
To that end I'm trying to get a proper understanding out of the use of openFOAM to do CFD analysis of the various ideas i have for the body shape and get some idea of what does / doesn't work.
OpenFOAM by the way is open source so free to download - use, you just need to put the effort into learning the thing. The learning curve on the software I've found steep, and the resources available limited.
Typically the software is run on Linux, but I've bought a version (50 Euro) ported for use on Windows.
What I've not found is any other like minded people such as myself specifically interested in the the automotive application of the software that are willing to talk / share information on how to get reasonably good and reasonably reliable results from the software.
The only form to date I've found of any use is CFD Online which is useful to search but not so good for the noob questions.
So if anyone out there is attempting the same as myself or can point me at a forum more suited to the task that'd be great.
For your entertainment a video created from a recent run: StreamLine02.avi - YouTube
I posted this question over on http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk, but there's a different demographic here so I'll ask here also...
Currently I'm working overseas from where the car is and we won't be back there for some time so I'm dealing with the enforced separation by working on the body design and finalizing everything else anything else I can think of.
To that end I'm trying to get a proper understanding out of the use of openFOAM to do CFD analysis of the various ideas i have for the body shape and get some idea of what does / doesn't work.
OpenFOAM by the way is open source so free to download - use, you just need to put the effort into learning the thing. The learning curve on the software I've found steep, and the resources available limited.
Typically the software is run on Linux, but I've bought a version (50 Euro) ported for use on Windows.
What I've not found is any other like minded people such as myself specifically interested in the the automotive application of the software that are willing to talk / share information on how to get reasonably good and reasonably reliable results from the software.
The only form to date I've found of any use is CFD Online which is useful to search but not so good for the noob questions.
So if anyone out there is attempting the same as myself or can point me at a forum more suited to the task that'd be great.
For your entertainment a video created from a recent run: StreamLine02.avi - YouTube