Pointwise, the Stanford University SU2 Team, and Tecplot will host a free webinar describing Stanford Solar Car Project history and the engineering challenges faced on Tue, Apr 5, 2016 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PDT.

With the aerodynamics of the vehicle playing a critical role in its performance, the Stanford Solar Car Project team developed a repeatable simulation driven design framework consisting of Pointwise for rapid hybrid grid generation, SU2 to run the computational fluid dynamics simulations, and Tecplot 360 EX to post-process and interpret the results. In this webinar we explore the framework that enabled the team to analyze over 40 design iterations in detail and make informed engineering decisions. These decisions improved the aerodynamic efficiency of the final design, ultimately culminating in Arctan.

Topics covered in this webinar:

• Stanford Solar Car Project history and the engineering challenges faced when designing Arctan
• Generation of repeatable, high quality, hybrid viscous meshes using anisotropic tetrahedral extrusion (T-Rex) with Pointwise
• The setup of SU2 for solving the incompressible RANS equations and computing surface sensitivities for design
• How to extract solution information from an array of design iterations using Tecplot 360 EX

Webinar Details

• Date: 5 April 2016
  
• Time: 10:00 a.m. CDT (GMT − 5 hours)
  
• Register: GoToWebinar Registration Site
  
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