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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'?

www.bloodhoundssc.com

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