Computational fluid dynamics

The virtual world is virtual, yeah.

But is the correlation between your CFD and your wind tunnel and what everything's telling you at home, you don't know until it hits the track.

We know how excited both Alex and Carlos are going to be with this new car coming to track.

But not to be the negative Nancy here, but you have to think that if this doesn't work out, especially for Carlos, you know, what's he going to be thinking? When does he eventually give up of his hopeful future at Williams? What

I think if you want rookies to be prepared, you might have to if sprints become the norm.

To your point about development, I think it might then lead...

under the budget cap to teams having to rethink again how they allocate their spend throughout the year with the vast majority, which is already the case, but even more of a focus on R&D going through CFD and wind tunnel.

And obviously you have the limitations on that based on where you finish the championship season.

It's not been given every year.

It's, it's given to really, um, celebrate the milestones of our industry, and cone calorimeter was definitely a milestone, a, a tool that, that turned from idea to just have something that measures heat release rates into a true workhorse of our industry, something you can correlate to many models, something that you can use to develop new models, something that ties to CFD.

Uh, I, I think Mark captured that very, very well in the end of the, in the podcast, and, and I feel kind of ashamed because I was not thinking about it from this perspective.

But really, this is a tool that connects the fire testing laboratory to the world of fire safety engineering.

É, mas, é, a verdade é que, é, a aposta na Aston Martin tem sido muitooo, é, desvi-- uma desilusão muito grande pra todos os fãs do Fernando Alonso e da Aston Martin.

É, com tantas promessas, com tudo que-- epá, não, eu acho que é, é difícil entender uma declaração dessas tendo a Aston Martin o melhor túnel do vento, o melhor CFD, o melhor, é, as melhores instalações mais recentes com mais moderna tecnologia baseada na IA.

Epá, têm parceiros de IA, têm uma série de coisas.

Pá, custa-me muito a acreditar que qualquer coisa que o Ben Sulayen possa fazer, a, a não ser pagar muito bem ao Fernando Alonso pra ele ser apenas ali um boneco, coisa que eu acho que ele não vai fazer, porque ele já no passado, quando percebeu que estava a ser ali apenas um joguete, pôs-se a andar e foi mas é divertir-se a correr onde ele, onde, onde realmente era feliz.

Has this improved, uh, performance or has it simply improved our ability to measure things and therefore be able to share more information?

Uh, so what we had found was there was this big explosion in terms of this CFD, computational fluid dynamics, as a way to start to get some more information.

Um, but then it sort of petered out particularly after 2012 sort of period.

So there's like this explosion of this emerging technology or the emerging use for this technology to help us understand some of that foundational principles.

Uh, and then I think what it comes down to is the fact that there's a huge amount of investment that's needed and continual investment to continue to work in this sort of area to be able to leverage the effects from it.

So everyone got really keen to try and use CFD.

There's bits and pieces that are coming out, but it's very easy to do a base level.

When you then start to want to answer those really complex questions that are associated with a person actually swimming through the water, the, the complexities in modeling a free swimming stroke are so much greater, therefore needed so much more resources to build your own models to be able to then test it, that you probably found a lack of appetite from people to, to keep these sort of programs going.

We want to test our aircraft on both aerodynamic and hydrodynamic front.

So we do a lot of CFD in-house specifically to prove that our numbers are actually correct and not something that we've made up with hand calculations.

So both the flight testing in person, like the subscale flight testing really massively helped, but there's always like a 20-30% error based on the kind of data that you're collecting and at what scale.

Then we have CFD and then the national infrastructure that we're trying to access purely for aerodynamics right now, which is going to be wind tunnels.

On the water end, we require like TOTACs, which are used by shipping-based companies to basically simulate the hydrodynamics in water, essentially like a wind tunnel equivalent.

We haven't been able to find that in India yet, but hopefully someone will make it or we might end up building it in the next couple of months.