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Originally Posted by Richard Casto
My understanding is that CFD is only going to be as good as your modelling methods. And that you can crank out virtual designs all day (and night) long, but the real question is... will it perform as expected when actually on the car on track?
I suspect a large part of actual wind tunnel time (which I believe is still controlled) is used to correlate and confirm the CFD results. And even then, you really don't know if it is "good" until you get on track. So if you are doing a crappy job with your CFD and tunnel testing you will struggle on track. And you may be at a loss as to "why" it's not working as expected.
Richard
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So basically the more sophisticated the CFD tools you are using the more accurate you can expect the results to be.
The minnows will be wasting their time on their CFD analysis while the rich and entitled teams will be developing at a rapid rate.
Not good!