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**Adfcvkdg** · 03-10-2010, 05:30 AM

CFD isn't new, in fact it has been used for many years now, and quite a few years ago Sauber and recently Renault have acquired computer clusters with with huge computing power for their own use of CFD, as probably did Ferrari and McLaren but without making a big fuss about it, still they have at least one wind tunnel at disposal, some even several ones.

There is only one thing I disagree with in your posts on this thread, and that is the number of teams using CFD and how long for. They all do, every single one of them except for Virgin.

When David Richards took over BAR in 2003 his remit was to return the team to competitiveness AND make it profitable. I remember even then he talked about using his CFD team to do work other than design the F1 car, he seemed particularly proud that the CFD team had designed an inhaler for asthma for a drug company. That was 7 years ago.

And no, Virgin doesn't have a fancy setup, they don't have a supercomputer. I'm not a computer expert but from the description I've heard its a series of affordable machines set up in parallel.

I suspect Virgin will be able to get a decent car going but the problem is when it goes wrong and an update doesn't work on track as CFD claimed it should. What are they going to do next? How do they figure out where things went wrong and why it doesn't work? I bet they'll have to rent a windtunnel to work things out or run the risk of not being able to trust their CFD anymore.

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Adfcvkdg Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 468 Senior Member	CFD isn't new, in fact it has been used for many years now, and quite a few years ago Sauber and recently Renault have acquired computer clusters with with huge computing power for their own use of CFD, as probably did Ferrari and McLaren but without making a big fuss about it, still they have at least one wind tunnel at disposal, some even several ones. There is only one thing I disagree with in your posts on this thread, and that is the number of teams using CFD and how long for. They all do, every single one of them except for Virgin. When David Richards took over BAR in 2003 his remit was to return the team to competitiveness AND make it profitable. I remember even then he talked about using his CFD team to do work other than design the F1 car, he seemed particularly proud that the CFD team had designed an inhaler for asthma for a drug company. That was 7 years ago. And no, Virgin doesn't have a fancy setup, they don't have a supercomputer. I'm not a computer expert but from the description I've heard its a series of affordable machines set up in parallel. I suspect Virgin will be able to get a decent car going but the problem is when it goes wrong and an update doesn't work on track as CFD claimed it should. What are they going to do next? How do they figure out where things went wrong and why it doesn't work? I bet they'll have to rent a windtunnel to work things out or run the risk of not being able to trust their CFD anymore.
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