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Filming the Bloodhound Super Sonic Car Land Speed Record

Using CAE to optimise the design of a prototype for a super sonic filming drone

Newsletter EnginSoft Year 14 n°4
By Timothy Missing, Michael Boer | University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Filming the Bloodhound Super Sonic Car Land Speed Record

Abstract

The Bloodhound project, conceptualized in 2008 by Richard Noble and Andy Green (past and present holders of the land speed record), targeted the setting of a new land speed record of 1000 mph with the Bloodhound Super Sonic Car (SSC) on an 18 km-long stretch of the Hakskeen salt pan in the Northern Cape of South Africa.

The South African University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg set some of its students a final-year Mechanical Engineering project to design a system to film the Bloodhound land speed record attempt at a distance of 50 m without interfering with the vehicle in any way.

This detailed technical case study describes how the students arrived at a supersonic aircraft drone prototype using MATLAB and modeFRONTIER in order to reduce the time and costs of numerical and wind-tunnel testing.

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