Lap Time Simulation of Formula SAE Vehicle With Quasi-steady State Model

2016-36-0164

10/25/2016

Event
25th SAE BRASIL International Congress and Display
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Lap time simulator (LTS) is a simulation tool used by racing teams to estimate lap time for a given vehicle setup, such as in Formula 1, Indy and Le Mans. This work employs a Formula SAE (FSAE) oriented LTS called OptimumLap, which uses a quasi-steady state method, to simulate prototype cars from Centro Universitário FEI. A MATLAB code has been created to simulate acceleration race and compare this result to OptimumLap. The latter has also been used to simulate skid pad and autocross events. RS8 simulation results have been compared to Michigan 2014 FSAE competition elapsed times for model validation. After validation of RS8 model, the new prototype RS9 was simulated in order to predict its performance; finally the results and the behavior of these two vehicles were compared.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2016-36-0164
Pages
8
Citation
Costa, R., and Bortolussi, R., "Lap Time Simulation of Formula SAE Vehicle With Quasi-steady State Model," SAE Technical Paper 2016-36-0164, 2016, https://doi.org/10.4271/2016-36-0164.
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Published
Oct 25, 2016
Product Code
2016-36-0164
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English