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We are also planning a trip to a local wind tunnel to test our wings. This is for the purpose of correlating our CFD data to wind tunnel data to further our understanding and abilities internally. We're pretty excited! Below is a photo of our 300mm chord unit, we will also be testing our smaller FRS/BRZ wing as well. We'll be sharing the data here as well as some photos and maybe a video?
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I was doing some work with our wing this week, testing out a new application with prototype parts and figured I would grab some weights!
The wing without any mounts on it is 3lbs 1oz. The wing with similar mounts as the twins is 3lbs 11oz. Our Japanese distributor also asked us to create an upright assembly for display purposes so I grabbed a quick photo before shipping. There is a decent bit to this mounting system to ensure the trunk does not deform and can handle the load (300 lbs) the rear wing can produce. Thank you, Eric |
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So we did end up going to the wind tunnel to correlate our CFD data to what is seen in the real world. We are still going through the data recorded at the tunnel as it just happened a few days ago, but when we have the data to share we will share it! In the meantime here are some photos.
The carbon unit is our 300mm chord single element unit which we already produce. This is the same profile used in our FRS/BRZ wing; the FRS/BRZ wing is a 3D shaped wing though vs. this unit being a 2d profile. The 3D printed unit is possibly the 250mm chord that we may bring to market down the road. Both profiles were developed by us and are our own profiles. Thanks, Eric |
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holy fuck nice data.
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Your efforts are really impressive. I also believe that the wing is really good. I just wished that it wouldn't look so weird. I am still not ready to sacrifice the looks of my car although I would love the downforce.
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Really? Because, I think it looks Absolutely BEAUTIFUL!
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I would expect to see another version of the mounting to be released around spring. We appreciate that! But the general consensus is that the bottom of the mounting is not aesthetic so we are working on a revision. I will work on getting our data from the wind tunnel posted in here shortly. Thanks, Eric |
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At what speed is the added downforce noticeable in a turn like, say 8 and 9 at Big Willow?
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Thank you. I agree that the mounting is probably what makes the wing looking less "clean" than, for example, the R Magic Wing or even the Nur Spec Wing. In particular, the combination of the oem spoiler and the Verus wing doesn't look clean or stock-like (although the effectiveness seems to be great). Of course, not everyone has the same taste ... [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW6NtvVvppE[/ame] |
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Verus Wind Tunnel Results A few weeks ago, Verus went to the wind tunnel with the goal of validating our CFD analysis. We tested at Auto Research Center Indianapolis (ARC Indy) using their wind tunnel for full-scale wing testing. Two of our rear wings were tested, along with 4 other wings from various other small businesses/privateers, using fixtures designed and built in house. Today’s blog will go over our results and findings from the wind tunnel. Why Does Validation Matter? Validating our CFD to wind tunnel data ensures that our test procedures within CFD are accurate and reasonable. CFD can run incorrectly very easily, and we wanted to make certain that our results within CFD estimate real world numbers. How Did We Run CFD to Compare to the Wind Tunnel? Unfortunately, it is physically impossible to test a rear wing in free-stream, which is how we developed our wing profile. The wing needs a way to be held up in the wind tunnel; so to correlate our results from CFD to the wind tunnel; we had to model and CFD the entire sting at the correct height off the tunnel floor. The wind tunnel tests were ran at ~80 MPH or 36.5 meters per second. Mesh generation, analysis, and post processing was handled by ANSYS. The mesh for this run was a bit over 40 million cells. The wing had 20 prism layers with a first cell height of 0.005mm to capture the viscous sublayer. We ran the wing through our main (3) turbulence models, K-Omega SST, K-Epsilon Realizable, and Spalart-Allmaras. We primarily use K-Omega SST in our analysis; but, presented a chance to improve our processes, we tested three. Verification and Validation - Downforce The graph below shows downforce for the experimental data (wind tunnel) compared to our CFD with different turbulence models applied. The analysis using the K-omega SST turbulence model was the closest to the wind tunnel results. Comparing this data; our CFD analysis underestimated downforce by 3.4lbs at 80 MPH; 7.5lbs at 120 MPH, and 13.4lbs at 160 MPH. Verification and Validation – Drag The graph below shows drag for the experimental data (wind tunnel) compared to our CFD with the same turbulence models above. The analysis using the K-Omega SST turbulence model was again the closest to the wind tunnel results. Comparing this data, our CFD analysis underestimated drag by 0.7lbs at 80MPH, 1.6lbs at 120 MPH, and 2.8lbs at 160 MPH. Verification and Validation - % Difference The below spreadsheet shows the downforce and drag coefficients for each simulation; with the percentage difference between the CFD analysis and the wind tunnel results. Conclusion With under a 2% difference from our CFD analysis to the wind tunnel; we are ecstatic with the results correlating so well. This really helped us solidify our analysis procedure and ensure what we do for each analysis is indeed correct and correlated to real-world results. Thanks, Eric |
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[INDENTVerus wing https://imgur.com/gallery/ZCm5SBt[/INDENT]
Hey guys just wanted to give some quick feedback on the wing for the 86s. I went from a Sard to the Verus wing along with the tranny tunnel covers. Also added the endplates in the front the car. Love everything about the wing and it 100% added some stability to the rear of the car. Was very confidence Inspiring allowing me to push into high speed corners harder and faster while maintaining excellent grip. Along the same track but on a hotter day with same tires which were now toast and starting to show cord I was able to go about 1 second faster off the back ( Aim Solo 2).The rear of the car always stayed in check and just gave me the great feel and confidence to push towards the limits. In the above pic you can see I have the wing angled pretty neutral and didnt start exploring with different angles as of yet but I plan to. The car just felt great with a slight understeer which is normal for my cars setup. I would 100% recommend the wing to anyone not needing or looking for gobs of downforce but a good amount while reducing drag to say a Sard wing. I feel its ideal for NA cars and FI cars that are on the lower power side like 250+iish. 🤙 |
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