Para­met­ric Design of a F1 Rear Wing

One of our col­leagues (who is really crazy about motor sports) cur­rently works on the opti­miza­tion of a rear wing design for a F1 race car. Basi­cally, he imported the entire car geometry and simply replaced the initial rear wing design by a smart para­met­ric model. And this model is really smart, it has been so much fun to put together the ani­ma­tions of this blog post for you.

The main wing and the flap get con­trolled by a set of func­tions using the advanced meta surface tech­nol­ogy. Well, CAESES® users typ­i­cally automate the shape changes, i.e. these func­tions get finally varied by opti­miza­tion algo­rithms. From the top to the bottom, we have changed only one wing control per ani­ma­tion, before ending up with a nice shape. This makes it easier to under­stand what’s actually going on. Enjoy!

Click on the ani­ma­tions for a higher resolution.

Camber Dis­tri­b­u­tion

Thick­ness Distribution

Wing Chord Length

Flap Chord Length

Flap Angle Of Attack

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Inter­ested in trying out CAESES® for your appli­ca­tion? Then check out our product pages for all details. See also the article ​“Aero­dy­namic Shape Opti­miza­tion: A Prac­ti­cal Guide” which sum­ma­rizes CAD modeling, meshing & sim­u­la­tion, as well as opti­miza­tion issues in the context of aero­dy­namic shape optimization.

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