AIAA Baltimore Section
presents
RACECAR AERODYNAMICS
DATE: Wednesday, April 30, 2008
TIME: 6:30 - 8:00 pm
(light refreshments at 6:00)
LOCATION: JHU/APL Parson's Auditorium
Free and open to the public.
See http://www.jhuapl.edu/newscenter/visitor/ for directions.
Please RSVP to Robin Vaughan at secretary@aiaa-baltimore.org or
443-778-5006 no later than April 28, 2008
www.aiaa-baltimore.org
In the past 30 years, car racing - from stock cars to open wheel, from solar powered to
dragsters - has seen an explosion in technology and a subsequent dramatic increase in
performance. Along with the advances in engine, suspension, and safety technologies, the
impact of aerodynamics on performance has been especially important as speeds have
increased. In circuit, or track, racing, due to the engine and chassis rules imposed by the
various sanctioning bodies, aerodynamics has increasingly been seen as an ever more
important area to understand and exploit. The lecture will outline three aspects of racing: the
car, the track, and the race, focusing mostly on open wheel race cars, where aerodynamics
plays a dominant role in reducing lap times.
SPEAKER:
Mr. Tom Ramsay
Senior Engineer
Honda R&D Americas
Thomas Ramsay's professional and vocational interests lie in the areas of aerodynamics, fluid dynamics,
physics, and mathematics, and include wide ranging topics such as automotive aerodynamics, applied
computational geometry, the physics and mathematics of sports, numerical and experimental correlation, and
race car aerodynamics. He is currently the Chair of the AIAA - Columbus Section, a member of SAE, and serves
on the SAE Vehicle Aerodynamics Forum Committee, Vehicle Configuration Committee, and the Motorsports
Engineering Conference Committee. Mr. Ramsay has a B.S. and M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from The
Ohio State University.
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presents
RACECAR AERODYNAMICS
DATE: Wednesday, April 30, 2008
TIME: 6:30 - 8:00 pm
(light refreshments at 6:00)
LOCATION: JHU/APL Parson's Auditorium
Free and open to the public.
See http://www.jhuapl.edu/newscente
Please RSVP to Robin Vaughan at secretary@aiaa-baltimore.org or
443-778-5006 no later than April 28, 2008
www.aiaa-baltimore.org
In the past 30 years, car racing - from stock cars to open wheel, from solar powered to
dragsters - has seen an explosion in technology and a subsequent dramatic increase in
performance. Along with the advances in engine, suspension, and safety technologies, the
impact of aerodynamics on performance has been especially important as speeds have
increased. In circuit, or track, racing, due to the engine and chassis rules imposed by the
various sanctioning bodies, aerodynamics has increasingly been seen as an ever more
important area to understand and exploit. The lecture will outline three aspects of racing: the
car, the track, and the race, focusing mostly on open wheel race cars, where aerodynamics
plays a dominant role in reducing lap times.
SPEAKER:
Mr. Tom Ramsay
Senior Engineer
Honda R&D Americas
Thomas Ramsay's professional and vocational interests lie in the areas of aerodynamics, fluid dynamics,
physics, and mathematics, and include wide ranging topics such as automotive aerodynamics, applied
computational geometry, the physics and mathematics of sports, numerical and experimental correlation, and
race car aerodynamics. He is currently the Chair of the AIAA - Columbus Section, a member of SAE, and serves
on the SAE Vehicle Aerodynamics Forum Committee, Vehicle Configuration Committee, and the Motorsports
Engineering Conference Committee. Mr. Ramsay has a B.S. and M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from The
Ohio State University.
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