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Once again, the same process could be used in the y direction to calculate the lift or downforce. I’ll end here and let you experiment with other visualizations, ParaView has filters for everything that SimScale has and more. Some of them require the internalMesh mesh region though.
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If you’ve been following along, you’ve now completed a CFD simulation in SimScale. I tried to make this guide brief, if you’d like to learn more about fluids, aerodynamics, or CFD simulations I’ll add some more resources below.
Additional Resources:
Midnight Sun PDF Library: Always a useful place to go. There’s resources for many different aspects of vehicle engineering, with some that are specific to solar cars.
The Leading Edge: There’s a paper copy in the bay. Very useful for understanding solar car aerodynamics, although it is focused on challenger class vehicles.
Fluid Mechanics 101: A YouTube channel with very detailed videos on specific topics in computational fluid dynamics. Great resource if you want to learn more about a specific topic like a certain turbulence model or algorithm.
LEAP Australia: A blog that has some useful articles. I mostly looked at their boundary layer articles.
CFD-Online: I haven’t looked through this site very thoroughly, but I did use it to learn about turbulence and estimating initial conditions.