Front Wing

For the UT22 car, our goal was to design a front wing that would generate more downforce than previous years, keep the flow attached, cause minimum dirty air behind it, and feed the undertray high energy air, and lastly to keep make the it more manufacturable by using the same airfoil profile for all three wing elements. I designed my own airfoil in SolidWorks after having done research, literature review, and reading Tune to Win by Carroll Smith. The performance of the airfoil profile was assessed using STAR-CCM+ 2D sims and based on the generated reports and graphs of the downforce and drag produced by the airfoil. After the optimal airfoil was chosen in the team, we moved to setting of the elements, and minimizing the flow travel at the wing tips (sides of the wing). For this 3D sims and design manager studies were used in STARCCM+ and the results of the simulations helped choose the base version of this year's design. Once all the parameters were finalized in the simplified CFD geometry. I cadded the front wing as can be seen in the pictures below.