Free FSAE Rear Wing Profiles + Is the CFD Real? | Tune To Wing Ep. 2

TUNE TO WING Vol. 02 — Your questions, real CFD & free rear wing profiles. After Ep. 1, a lot of you asked two things: can we have the actual profiles, and is that pressure distribution real? This episode answers both. Ex-Formula 1 and Tesla Aerodynamicist James Crook walks through the full-car CFD behind the rear wing on Navier.ai, then shares the JC-RW1 mainplane and flap as free STEP files. ▶ Free STEP downloads: https://jamescrookaero.com/tune-to-wi... ▶ CFD: Powered by https://navier.ai ▶ Ep. 1 (Reading Cp like an F1 engineer):    • FSAE Rear Wing Design: Reading Cp Like an ...   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 – Intro 0:22 – Your questions 1:38 – Is it real? Full-car CFD surface pressure (Navier.ai) 2:28 – Spanwise Cp slices: centreline to outboard 4:03 – Wall shear stress: where the boundary layer struggles 5:34 – The profiles: JC-RW1 mainplane + flap 7:24 – Where to download the STEP files 7:52 – As downloaded: profiles are normalised, not in vehicle space 8:15 – Wrap-up & next up: front wing design ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW TO USE THE PROFILES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ → Each element is exported on its own with its leading edge at (0,0,0) and levelled, so it's not in vehicle space. Set the incidence (especially the flap), scale and position yourself. → Compare them against your own profiles; don't just drop them on your car. → Your onset flow is different from mine (front wing upwash, helmet, roll hoop, engine), so iterate for your own car. Questions or feedback? Leave a comment. Front wing episode coming in the next few weeks. #FSAE #FormulaStudent #Aerodynamics #CFD #RearWing #MotorsportEngineering