If you have a passion for motorsport you may have noticed in
recent times that the rear wings on race cars look slightly different. The
large wings are, on an increasing number of designs, mounted from the top of
the wing (the pressure side) as opposed to the traditional way of mounting on
the lower surface (the suction side). Why is this?
Computational Fluid Dynamics analysis or CFD as you’ve
probably heard of it, has
found that mounting...