Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Analyzing the sweep angle of a Common Swift CAD Model on a car body
Wind Tunnel Testing
(Earned trust of senior academic professor at Brown University’s Breuer Wind Tunnel Lab to be the first RISD student to gain access and be trained to use advanced wind-tunnel facilities for aerodynamic testing)
Resin printed configurations mimicking active sweep and pitch angles to measure lift/drag vs. velocity
Wind Tunnel Results
10 Degree AoA
20 Degree AoA
30 Degree AoA
This aerodynamic data validates the design inquiry showing that as AoA increases, so does downforce, and variable sweep within each AoA configuration allows for incremental control of downforce.
Final Review
