Formula SAE

25th Anniversary of UNSW Redback Racing – A look back at Formula-SAE Aerodynamics Strategies

Founded in 2000, The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Formula SAE Team, UNSW Redback Racing has continued year on year to design, build and race in the Formula SAE Australasia competition. With each car, the team strives for improvement and innovation, building on previous designs and advancing their knowledge into the future. An important part of this process is the use of Ansys Simulation for their Aerodynamics package and in this article, the team outlines their aerodynamics simulation strategy, explaining how they got to their current design, and their plans for the future.

Fast-tracking the development of autonomous vehicles, drones and robots via engineering simulation

Designers of autonomous vehicles, drones & robots face key safety and reliability challenges when integrating machine vision & complex sensors. Engineering simulation tools can form part of a complete control loop for autonomous systems, helping to replicate the real world performance of sensors in a consistent and repeatable virtual test environment and leading engineers to solve issues before they become a problem in real life.

Guest Blog by ECU-R: Analysing F-SAE Aerodynamic Flow Fields Using CFD

Guest blog by ECU-Racing on how the team uses CFD simulation to drive aerodynamic design improvements, explaining how CFD simulation results provide help identify problematic aspects such as flow separation, undesirable flow structures, and poor use of flow energy which can then lead to new ideas which can be tested in CFD to improve the overall flow around the car.

Guest Blog by MMS: Aero Mapping for Formula-SAE using CFD

Monash Motorsport has been designing Formula Student cars with wings and diffusers for many years, but this process has been fast-tracked through greater automation of Ansys CFD simulations to help the team gather more simulation data points & generate a comprehensive aero map to analyse the impact of changes in vehicle roll, yaw, steer and ride height.

Guest Blog by MMS: Centre of Attention – Using FEA to optimise wheel centres for a Formula SAE racecar

Learn how FEA played an important role in the redesign of Monash Motorsport’s wheel centres for their F-SAE cars – reducing the mass from 906g to 731g for each wheel centre from the 2019 to new 2020 design.

Launch of LEAP Learning Hub

LEAP Australia is committed to the growth of CAE software and simulation tools within the engineering and design community across Australia and New Zealand.  Support and training of our customers and students form a vital part… Read More »Launch of LEAP Learning Hub

Student teams are ground zero for next-generation of simulation engineers

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”3120″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]As we post this blog, hundreds of students are gathering at Winton Motor Raceway, north-east Victoria, for the 2019 Formula-SAE Australasian competition,… Read More »Student teams are ground zero for next-generation of simulation engineers

Guest Blog: Using Ansys Maxwell for Motor Design in Formula Student Competition

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Formula Student competition challenges engineering students from around the world to design, manufacture, market and race a small, open wheeled formula style racer. Since… Read More »Guest Blog: Using Ansys Maxwell for Motor Design in Formula Student Competition

Guest Blog by RMIT Racing: Using Augmented Reality (AR) for R18c – Designing for the Future

RMIT Racing explains how both their combustion and electric F-SAE teams have decided to employ the use of Augmented Reality (AR) with technical support from LEAP for their 2018 campaigns, including an impressive visualisation of the aerodynamics of the R17c vehicle.

Augmented Reality (AR) draws attention at MMS 2017 launch night

[Editorial Note: from June 2018, the AR app referred to in this blog is now known on all app stores as Vuforia View]: Thanks to… Read More »Augmented Reality (AR) draws attention at MMS 2017 launch night