Is anyone aware if the rules locked the 120kW in the ES to the mguh/k. From what I have read they dont, there may be some other regulation however that prevents the following idea. "I dont know what I dont know" and would just like to know if Im mistaken. Rules PDF: (http://www.fia.com/sites/default/files/ ... -12-03.pdf)
Article 5.12 explains that, the closest thing that can be used to determine the limits is a basic UML diagram in appendix 3: Bottom right corner
Unlimited energy from the ES and both mguh/k to "Other Ancillaries". With that said, theres a paper that was published about two years ago on plasma actuators; an excerpt from the abstract:
"...An example of this class of actuators is shown to generate boundary layer streaks, which can be used to accelerate or delay the laminar to turbulent transition process, depending on how they are applied..."
the whole paper can be studied here: http://cpdlt.mae.ufl.edu/pdf/2013/JAP_R ... D_2013.pdf
A video of the process can be seen here: http://phys.org/news/2013-10-wrangling- ... craft.html
That is incense that is in still air, being induced to flow over the surface.
Unless I am completely unfounded, why not exploit the unregulated parts of the regulations? Think Dyson's fanless fan but done with F1 engineering. If this is a loophole, it would most likely get closed given the way the FIA approaches tech..