actual chord length used by any team for the upper rear wing

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scarbs
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Re: actual chord length used by any team for the upper rear

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My presumption is that it's to funnel air into the slot gap.

ArgyrisB
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Re: actual chord length used by any team for the upper rear

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I made a quick CFD analysis with FLUENT . It's free-stream only in 15.56 m/s. As Scrabs explains the flow that a F1 rear wing sees it's very different from a free stream flow so not many conclusions can be drawn.

Cl = -5.84, Cd = 1.3

Jatorna
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Re: actual chord length used by any team for the upper rear wing

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Greetings ArgyrisB. I am a student of Aeronautical Engineering, and like the guy who opened this thread I'm going to do a final project with this profile that Scrabs leaves us. I'm going to do it with Fluent too, could you borrow the CAD model or all the information you have about it to compare results? I know it's a lot to ask but it's all for academic purposes! I would be grateful.

Thank you very much.