From the course: Composite Design and Manufacturing 03: Validation and Production

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CFD testing

CFD testing

- [Instructor] Now that we've gone ahead and given the computer a little time to solve for our CFD problem here. I've gone ahead and turned on the path lines. So you can kind of see how the wind is going to flow over this bike. You can see that we made some of those changes that we had talked about in part two of this course. And when we were playing with discovery we wanted to change some of the characteristics of this down tube so that it would help not have so much of a dead spot right against the tube. And it would flow over the tube better. You can see how it's flowing pretty well. You can see how we cleaned up this area too in the head tube area where that allows the wind to kind of catch the front and keep going. We also thinned this out just a little bit. You can also see how we kind of smoothed out this area where, if it was a bottom bracket, that bottom area here, and we smoothed that out. And you can see how…

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