A wild sidepod idea.....

[auto saibot]

you can laugh at me, i don't keep any in-depth knowledge of aero, but this idea just caught me......
http://img638.imageshack.us/i/image0070v.jpg/

[doopie2you]

I am no aero expert but would that not create allot of drag? And where does the air go after it cooled the radiator?

[wesley123]

There are alot of problems with that;
1. The hole is illegal where it gets its cooling air from
2. Where does this air exit?
3. This is just an incredibly fat wing generating lots of drag, and thrn i havent even minded the duct drag
4. The trailing edge spoils the air to the rear wing.
5. The trailing edge is in forbidden area

[auto saibot]

seems like it won't work......

[Callum]

How will the air move forward through the radiator?

[auto saibot]

air can be made to exit through r31 like exhaust, right in front beneath the floor.....

[machin]

Remember, in order to get air to flow from one place to another you need high pressure at the inlet, and lower pressure at the outlet, so yes, this arrangement could be made to work if these are put in the right places on the "aerofoil"... but in order to get air flow to go backwards against the normal flow that requires a large amount of pressure difference... So where does this high pressure differential come from? -> by creating very high pressure at the inlet... high pressure means high drag....



I suspect that in order to create the right pressure differential you'd need to have a huge inlet.. like this:-



What benefit were you looking for with the "back-to-front" radiator flow?

[auto saibot]

well i was thinking of creating downforce with that sidepod,making radiator flow back to front was not the primary idea.......thanks for explaining.
so is that thing going to generate only drag?

[tommylommykins]

To make downforce according to Newton's First Law, you need to take in air that's moving in any direction except upwards, and make it move upwards as it leaves the car. The swithback device itself wouldn't achieve this, because the air starts off going backwards, and finishes off going backwards.

[Gatecrasher]

Newton's First Law States:

Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.

Down force is created by either drag which is angled, or by differential pressure which is typically created by expanding the volume an airflow passes through thus reducing the relative pressure.

If the additional airflow from the radiators is channeled into the diffuser then the real question would be whether this would outweigh the drag created.

[PlatinumZealot]

you can laugh at me, i don't keep any in-depth knowledge of aero, but this idea just caught me......
http://img638.imageshack.us/i/image0070v.jpg/

That is radical!! I think it can work. Unless some calculations are done who knows? the amount of drag might be smaller than the benefits.

As for heat transfer.. I guess we need to know the required flow rates..

[auto saibot]

you can laugh at me, i don't keep any in-depth knowledge of aero, but this idea just caught me......
http://img638.imageshack.us/i/image0070v.jpg/

That is radical!! I think it can work. Unless some calculations are done who knows? the amount of drag might be smaller than the benefits.

As for heat transfer.. I guess we need to know the required flow rates..

so i may go for some more ......
http://img706.imageshack.us/i/sidepods.png/( i wonder why that img tag is not working)
1.first one is expelling it from bottom of pods
2.expelling it from side hole
3.blowing the floor through a smallest possible pipe leading to floor