Current Research Tasks ✏️

[ ] (2/5) access network drive & investigate fiberglass manufacturing: \\mae-data\design\Fibre Glass How-to Vids
[x] (2/5) investigate (on their website or email someone) about the possibility of manufacturing an ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene) body panel in the Composites Lab
[ ] (2/12) how do gas-powered FSAE cars install side manifolds (for cooling radiators)? research important parameters & common shapes
[ ] (2/12) surface modeling in CREO (<< Iris currently taking care of this one)

Design

Indian FSAE Team: full design & analysis process, 2016

design-material-selection-and-fabrication-of-a-race-car-body-panel-IJERTV5IS040719.pdf

CREO Surfacing Tutorials

Meredith effect - Wikipedia

Analysis

ANSYS Aerodynamics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6GpQJfBtI8&ab_channel=AnsysLearning

Or ANSYS for Beginners https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL724vH8VVC8plA-GfGlPXy39ChkfjyA0C

ANSYS - 2020 version has free student license - limited to certain mesh size, can’t use GPU, otherwise perfectly adequate. MAE lounge PC (right side on the back wall) has full license, 2022 version, and runs very fast. Only installed on this PC, unclear if license can be hosted on server (ask Martinelli?)

ANSYS files are NOT backwards compatible - once you edit with the ‘22 version, can’t open with ‘21 version. Lounge PC has ‘22, student edition is ‘21.