Final year major project to complete my time at University entitled 'Design of the Front and Rear Wings for a Formula Student Race Car' as a part of the Brunel Racing team.  The resulting study happened to be selected for the Brunel Engineers Showcase 2014.

 

The process involved using a NACA code generator to produce airofil curves of the desired parameters which could then be imported into Solidoworks to create 2D multi element wings before further importing into ANSYS Workbench FLUENT for CFD analysis.  The front wing was optimsed through a ground effect study where the mainplane angle of attack was altered as well as the distance from the ground to establish the highest performance found through the comparison of Cl/Cd values and downforce values from the simulations.  The rear wing was also simulated in 2D whereby the third element angle of attack was altered to find the most desirable performance possible.  Once both optimum set-ups where found, the 2D airfoil curves for the front and and rear wings were converted into 3D in Solidworks to allow for seperate 3D CFD simulations before a final half car model was simulated to establsh the theoretical performance of the two together. 

 

Below shows the overview board produced for the Brunel Engineers Showcase as well as close ups of the final wing designs and final concept design as produced with a fellow race team member.