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  1. Does more downforce affect the acceleration and top speed?

    Sep 7, 2021 · Does a car make more downforce the faster it goes? For example, a Lola B12/60 can go from 0-60 mph in 2.8 seconds and reach a speed of 206 mph with 725 hp, while the Peugeot 908 …

  2. Aerodynamical forces - downforce - Engineering Stack Exchange

    Mar 7, 2016 · The common principal aerodynamic elements of a car are a front wing, rear wing and diffuser (which creates downforce under the car by ground effect). Ride height both overall and front …

  3. How air dam reduce drag and lift? - Engineering Stack Exchange

    Aug 23, 2022 · What is main purpose of air dam in car industry, reduce drag or reduce lift (increase downforce)? How dam reduce drag if : a)increase frontal area, b)increase stagnation pressure at the …

  4. mechanical engineering - How do drag and downforce in a rear spoiler …

    Mar 22, 2019 · I ran an two aerodynamic simulations, one for a spoiler angle of 0 deg and the other for the same spoiler declined at 30 deg. The results showed a considerable increase in downforce, but …

  5. How do I properly scale down a force for scale-down model testing?

    Oct 5, 2021 · For stress analysis only - if the load is uniformly distributed,, scale down the actual uniform load by 8. For concentrated load, scale the concentrated force by 64.

  6. Pound-force (lbf) vs Pound-mass (lbm) - Engineering Stack Exchange

    Aug 25, 2015 · Given: My thermodynamics text reads as follows: In SI units, the force unit is the newton (N N), and it is defined as the force required to accelerate a mass of 1 ⋅ kg 1 k g at a rate of 1 ⋅ m s2 …

  7. pressure - Increasing air velocity through F1 car diffuser ...

    Jan 27, 2022 · I understand that because of Bernoulli's law, when the velocity increases, the pressure decreases, which is good for F1 cars if we want to generate downforce (by having a low pressure …

  8. Car Suspension Force Equations - Engineering Stack Exchange

    Mar 5, 2016 · Later I will need to implement what's known as aerodynamical downforce, will need to get equations for that aswell, right? Oh, and as this is for a game, this could be a good approximation, …

  9. aerodynamics - What is the area when calculating the drag coefficient ...

    Apr 2, 2016 · For a race car wing (which is simply an airplane wing upside down to generate downforce), what should we consider as the area? The cross-sectional area perpendicular to the flow or the wing …

  10. automotive engineering - What affects a car's overall top speed ...

    Aug 31, 2021 · The factors that affect a car's top speed - IMHO - can be grouped to the power train factors : engine power gear box and differential ratios size of the wheel and to the losses: overall …