GURNEY FLAP

STUDY

Aerodynamics
Yoel Argaiz
Pablo Barroso
 index

1. HISTORY
2. HOW DOES IT WORK?
3. OUR PROJECT
4. MESH
5. SIMULATION
6. DATA ANALYSIS
 Dan Gurney
hISTORY
ARR Team
Slow Car
Rectangular piece Found balance
Extreme of the Airfoil Nice Races

RACE
1971 POST
1960 S 2022
practice

Famous Competitions
Race Car Disapointig Lap
Rear Tab Times
Excesive grip
How does it work?

Difficult

Air resistance

Airflow Covers the Profile

Angles of Attack

Grip

Fundament
 OUR PROJECT

NACA 2,08%
Position L 20,88
23012 w 8,5
Gurney Length
0,21% Displaced
AoA Performance L 2,1 6% L
w 8,5 60 mm
OUR PROJECT

Re 1950000 Re 2500000 Re 3000000

35,82 m/s 45,92 m/s 55,1 m/s

AoA AoA AoA AoA

0º 5º 10º 15º
 MESH

1.0 Directed Mesh 2.0 Refined Automated Mesh 2.1 Optimized Automated Mesh
1.0 Directed Mesh

Defects

● 96500+ cells for a 2D

simulation
● Excessively large meshing
process
● Excessively large iteration
process
● Almost same exact solutions as
following meshes
2.0 Refined Automated Mesh

Automated Mesh Default Controls

●Base Size
○0.4
Updates + Defects
●Target surface
○100%
● Less meshing and iteration time
●Minimum surface
○3% ● Hard to stabilize with large
●Number of Prism Layers
gurney flap geometries
○40
●Prism Layer Stretching
● Same results as in final mesh
○1.1
●Prism Layer Total Thickness
○0.001m
2.1 Optimized Automated Mesh

Automated Mesh Default Controls

●Base Size
Updates
○0.8
●Target surface ● Less meshing and iteration time
○100% ● Fast stabilization
●Minimum surface
○3%
●Number of Prism Layers
○40
●Prism Layer Stretching
○1.3
●Prism Layer Total Thickness
○0.003m
 SIMULATION
Air Flux Study

● Inlet Velocity = 55.1 m/s ; 198 km/h

● AoA = 15º

● Gurney Flap x Displacement = 0.0 mm

● Gurney Flap Height/Chord Ratio = 2.08 %
 SIMULATION
Air Flux Study

● Lower Face Velocity lowers because

of turbulence

● Higher velocity at the upper face creates

lower pressure zones
DATA ANALYSIS
DATA ANALYSIS