Postgraduate Prospectus 2013 - Swansea University

Engineering adventure
{at 1,000mph }
Dr Ben Evans is CFD modeller on the
BLOODHOUND project. He is studying
the car’s aerodynamics to understand
how it will behave.
His computational models have influenced
BLOODHOUND’s design, including its
front wheel configuration, the shape of
the nose, and the jet engine intake.
The CFD modelling continues to be one
of the dominant tools used to develop
the surface geometry of BLOODHOUND.
The BLOODHOUND Supersonic Car (SSC) aims
to increase the current land speed record by over
30% to 1000mph by 2013. The five-year science
and engineering adventure is the vision of current
land speed record holders Sir Richard Noble
and Wing Commander Andy Green, whose
THRUST SSC took the record to 763mph.
Swansea University’s primary role in the
BLOODHOUND project has been the development
of the pioneering Computational Fluid Dynamics
(CFD) technology used to aerodynamically design
the THRUST SSC. That CFD technology has since
been further refined and customised to address
BLOODHOUND SSC’s ambitious and specific
challenges in science, engineering and maths.
www.bloodhoundssc.com
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