Students design and assemble record-setting supercar
Using Ohio Supercomputing Center resources, VBB-3 student engineers
produced a pressure contour simulation of the race car at 300 miles (483 kilometers) per hour. Image courtesy Denis Boussard, Venturi Automobiles.
Last month at the Bonneville Salt Flats near Wendover, Utah, US, the Venturi Buckeye Bullet team from The Ohio State University in Columbus, US, successfully clocked another international land speed record. Professional driver Roger Schroer guided the VBB-3 to an average two-way speed of 212.615 miles (342.171 kilometers) per hour. The record, set in a new competition category for the team (Category A Group VIII Class 8), is pending certification by the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) worldwide motorsports governing body.
The streamlined, electric race car was designed and assembled by undergraduate and graduate students at the Center for Automotive Research (CAR). For the latest Bullet iteration, graduate student Casie Clark ran computational fluid dynamics jobs at the Ohio Supercomputer Center. Clark’s aim was to design a wheel well wind deflector, which she says will eliminate a large air mass inside the wheel wells that would otherwise create substantial drag.
– Amber Harmon
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