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NASCAR Aerodynamics Model Study

May 1, 2016 By Paul Gruenbacher

Drive a car not originally built for racing around an oval track at 200 mph for a couple hours and you begin to understand why stock car drivers want the greatest and latest information on how their car will handle in close traffic on a banked curve. Traditionally engineers in NASCAR relied on wind-tunnel and track testing. But in recent years, NASCAR began looking for an alternative.

Joint webinar with TotalSim US and Pointwise featuring work on Breedlove’s new land-speed record attempt

March 31, 2015 By Paul Gruenbacher

TotalSim and Pointwise presented a Webnar April 28, 2015 featuring our use of Pointwise Gridding Software for work on Craig Breedlove's New Land Speed Record Attempt vehilce.

Animation of Dirty Air in Indy Racing

August 1, 2014 By Paul Gruenbacher

When you’re running in a pack of cars in over two hundred miles an hour, it’s unsettling for the drivers and for the cars. The drivers refer to it as dirty air. In a way you can see dirty areas through computational fluid dynamics (CFD). That’s computer modeling that will show the airflow across the […]

TotalSim Awarded Mozilla Ignite Grants

April 11, 2014 By Paul Gruenbacher

TotalSim is participating in a project with the City of Dublin, Metro Data Center, OARNet, and Univ of Missouri to test the use of new remote desktop protocols and applications for use with Modeling and Simulation. Project leader Dr. Prasad Calyam who recently moved from OH-TECH’s OARNet to a professorship at University of Missouri applied […]

TotalSim working with Ohio State on Awesim Program

September 11, 2013 By Paul Gruenbacher

TotalSim is one of the key partners in a $6M public-private partnership funded by the Ohio Third Frontier announced last June. The key partners are OSC, P&G, Intel, and two other small Engineering Service providers similar to TotalSim, AltaSim of Worthington, OH and Kinetic-Vision from Cincinnati, OH. This program has been named AwesSim with a new […]