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High PErformance Roadvehicle optimized aerodynamic design: Application of parallel computing to car design

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High-Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN-Europe 1998)

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The HIPEROAD project has developed a software system capable of performing a semi-automatic optimisation of the shape of sport cars with respect to their aerodynamical properties. The system utilises an aerodynamic solver implemented on parallel MIMD systems, and features advanced tools for the evolution and meshing of car surfaces. The system allows to include aerodynamic optimisation in the early stages of car design. It has been tested on a Ferrari Auto model and full agreement between computed and measured aerodynamical properties was found. The code has been used for designing an optimised model with improved car safety, reducing the vertical upload significantly without affecting car performance.

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  1. Università di Lecce, Dip.to di Fisica, ex Collegio Fiorini, via per Arnesano, Lecce, Italy

    Matteo Beccaria

  2. Università di Pisa, Dip.to di Ing. Aerosp., via Diotisalvi 2, I-56126, Pisa, Italy

    Guido Buresti, Giovanni Lombardi & Daniela Lombardo

  3. INFN, Sezione di Pisa, Piazza Torricelli 2, I-56126, Pisa, Italy

    Alberto Ciampa, Giuseppe Curci & Andrea Viceré

  4. GENIAS Software Gmbh, Erzgebirgstrasse 2, 93073, Neutraubling, Germany

    Wolfgang Gentzsch & Hans-Georg Paap

  5. Ferrari Auto Spa, Via Emilia Est, I-1163, Modena, Italy

    Giuseppe Manacorda

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Beccaria, M. et al. (1998). High PErformance Roadvehicle optimized aerodynamic design: Application of parallel computing to car design. In: Sloot, P., Bubak, M., Hertzberger, B. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1401. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0037135

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