July 14th
at Cafe-At-Bristol
The BLOODHOUND Supersonic Car - How and Why? 
The BLOODHOUND Supersonic Car, launched by Richard Noble
and Andy Green in October 2008 is set to take the land speed
record into a whole new speed regime.
The team, including researchers from Swansea University at
its heart, plans to take a manned vehicle to 1000mph by 2011,
increasing the current land speed record (763mph) by over
30%. This target presents the team with massive scientific
and engineering challenges, not least of which being how the
car will stay attached to the ground at these speeds. The
computational fluid dynamics research team at The School of
Engineering has been working on answering such questions,
and predicting the overall aerodynamic behaviour of such a
vehicle.
Join Dr. Clare Wood and Dr. Ben Woods from the Civil & Computational
Engineering Centre at Swansea University to consider how these
challenges have been overcome in designing BLOODHOUND SSC,
and tackle the question of 'why bother'?
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