Riassunto analitico
The process of designing a race car is one of the most complex there are: tight deadlines, combined with very complex design problems and a highly competitive environment are just some of the most obvious challenges one is faced with when entering this world.
The most important challenge of all, in this environment, is the one of finding the limit of the car in itself, and to come as close as possible to it: every system and component of the car have to be as optimized as possible, in relation to the project's scope.
The starting point of this project and its importancy is exactly this, of finding the limit.
Cooling systems are at the core of the car's functioning abilities, for whatever the car's propulsion system might be, ICE or electric. Being this the case, the importance of simulating the system before its final release is crucial, as the risk of downsizing the system too much is one to have in mind at all times, when trying to find the limit.
This thesis project has the objective of simulating the cooling system of an extremely high performance electric prototype: the final milestone of this project will be reached with the finalization of a model of the whole system. The model's measurements will depend upon the various chosen components of the cooling system - related to their optimal working temperatures and the data available at the time on the components themselves.
This model is correlated to the system through data gathered in tests, other simulations and component data sheets. This will give the best approximation possible of the systems's performance shown by the model.
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