Want to win your F1 in Schools competition?

To win your F1 in schools competition, your car has to be AERODYNAMIC!

 

In this course, you'll learn:

-What is aerodynamics

-What is a streamline body vs. a bluff body

-What category does an F1 car fall into

-What is lift/downforce, drag, side forces, and moments

-How to non-dimensionalize these forces and moments

-How F1 cars produce these forces and moments

-Why F1 cars produce these forces and moments

-What is pressure and how does it act?

-The different types of drag (pressure, skin friction, vortex/induced drag)

-How lift/downforce is produced and the penalty that must be paid for it

-Aerodynamics in F1:

    -Wheels

    -Wings

    -Front Spoiler

    -Side pods

    -Underneath

    -Diffuser

-Advanced aerodynamic concepts

    -Bernoulli’s Equation / Venturi Effect

    -Boundary Layers and Flow Separation

    -Drag Reduction Systems

    -Vortices (pressure, energy, flow energizing, vortex lift)

-How an F1 car’s geometry changes with different tracks

-What is the F1 in schools track

-How does that track dictate what geometry the car should be

-What forces and moments exist on an F1 in schools car

-Which forces are good and which are bad

-What forces you should seek to maximize and what forces need to be minimized (CO2 force, friction, lift/downforce)

-Aerodynamics of the different parts of the F1 in Schools car

    -Wheels

    -Wing

    -Front Spoiler

    -Side Pods

    -Rear Pods

    -Underneath

    -Effect of CO2 Canister Gas

    -Eyelets for the Guideline

-Which methods to use to test your F1 car

    -Experiments

        -Advantages

        -Limitations

    -CFD

        -Advantages

        -Limitations

 

Learn how to make your car more aerodynamic, reduce your lap times, and WIN!

 

The instructor of this course has a PhD in aerodynamics, with experience in airplane aerodynamics, automotive aerodynamics, and turbomachinery aerodynamics - experimentally and numerically (CFD) - has lectured at Universities, has published in the top research journals in each respective field, and has peer reviewed journal articles.

 

Please note, this course is provided by Premier Aerodynamics and not by the F1 in Schools organization.

OpenFOAm Course

 

OpenFOAM is a completely free CFD software, and it's VERY powerful!

 

BUT, it's really hard to learn, which is why most never do. Leaving them stuck paying $10,000's for licenses every year!

 

Our course makes learning OpenFOAM easy, taking you step-by-step through the process, from literally how to install OpenFOAM, all the way to running your own industry-grade DES simulations. This allows you to use as many cells as you like in your mesh, whatever solver, any timesteps, and a whole range of other parameters that would otherwise be out of reach.

 

We cover:

 

• What OpenFOAM is

• How to install it

• Geometry importation

• Domain generation

• Domain Meshing

• Boundary Layer Meshing

• Mesh Refinement

• Solver Setting

• RANS (Reynolds-Averaged Navier Stokes)
• URANS (Unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier Stokes)
• DES (Detached Eddy Simulation)
• Selecting different turbulence models, like K-Omega, K-Epsilon, SST, K-Omega SST, Spalart Allmaras
• Selecting appropriate Timesteps
• Adjusting the Courant number
• Changing the relaxation factors
• How to save data from each iteration, and how often you save it (to later postprocess)
• How to postprocess your data to get informative and great looking images

 

We go through 12 CFD simulations, ranging from RANS to DES, with you and that you can follow along, step-by-step, to ensure you learn how to OpenFOAM!

 

AND we give you the Master files so you can copy and paste them for your simulations!

 

Prerequisites: None.

 

Computer Requirements: A computer running Windows or Linux with 4 GB of RAM or more.

 

 

Reviews

 

"I love the way you explain how to use OpenFoam. It makes it really easy" - Tobi R. Germany

 

"This course was great. It was the third one I have taken from you." - Annika G. South Africa

 

"The docs and files you provide helped me get running CFD in OpenFOAM quickly. TYSM." - James K., USA

OpenFOAm Advanced meshing and motion Course

 

OpenFOAM is a very powerful CFD tool.

 

This course unlocks it potential to simulate motion. With this course you can simulate the motion found on cars, in airplane turbojets and turbofans, when two objects change position relative to each other, and even when structures deform.

 

This course covers the following advanced meshing and motion simulation topics:

 

• How to find the bad cells in your mesh and fix them

• How to monitor the residuals and convergence in real time

• How to initialize your simulation to make it converge faster

• Rotating Wall Simulations

• MRF Simulations

• Sliding Mesh Simulations

• Dynamically Morphing Meshes

• Overset Meshes

• How to make your simulations run faster

• Fluid-Structure Interactions

 

We go through 8 CFD simulations, showing you how to prescribe any motion you need, from linear, to rotation, to even oscillations, AND we give you the Master files so you can copy and paste them for whatever simulations you need!

 

Prerequisites: Basic understanding of how to run an OpenFOAM simulation

 

Computer Requirements: A computer running Windows or Linux with 4 GB of RAM or more

 

Reviews

 

"I've taken multiple CFD courses from university-led modules to youtube series and I can honestly say this one was by far the best explained!" - Max S., U.K.

 

"You covered so much in this course. I feel like I really understand all these different meshes really well now." - Andrew B., Australia

 

"So useful. It has been so easy to use the master files for my own dynamic mesh sims. Thanks!" - Jacob C., USA