6-6-25

### How does the aero design cycle work?
- [ ] In the past
    - [ ] One senior aerodynamicist to each big part
        - [ ] 2-3 junior aerodynamicists under each big part
    - [ ] Senior aerodynamicists have complete autonomy over the parts
    - [ ] Interior and external structures happen only after CFD is done
    - [ ] Load cases
        - [ ] Aero forces (determined from the CFD)
        - [ ] Cone strike
        - [ ] Rear wing mounts during a spinout
- [ ] Kevlar
    - [ ] Placed where the car is likely to scrape
        - [ ] ^ parts lowest to the ground
    - [ ] Kevlar could be replaced by metal skidplates #todo #f26 #aero
    - [ ] Used because it's easy to incorporate in the layups and it's resistant to scraping
- [ ] How are designs benchmarked
    - [ ] Benchmarked against last year's parts
    - [ ] Once there's a new design, it becomes the benchmark
    - [ ] Not as many cornering cases
    - [ ] Weekly baselines
        - [ ] Per part Cl, overall Cl, overall drag
        - [ ] Straight line, cornering, etc.
        - [ ] If they have a cluster or a faster computer more sensitivity studies can be performed #todo #f27 #aero #business 
    - [ ] The rate limiting thing right now is how long the CFD runs take #todo #business #f27 #aero 
- [ ] Structures
    - [ ] Rear wing swan necks and front wing mounting arms can be locked earlier #todo #f27 #cpsites #aero 
- [ ] Any things that you're unhappy about in the design cycle
    - [ ] Anika
        - [ ] Spent too much time focused on figuring out the aerodynamics and not enough time on the structures
        - [ ] Need a deadline for when aerodynamics need to be complete and when we need to shift to structures
    - [ ] Hammonds
        - [ ] Freeze FW and RW sooner to focus on structures
        - [ ] Let UT and side aero CFD stuff run longer
    - [ ] Vivin
        - [ ] Integration is an issue
        - [ ] Sometimes aero doesn't make an effort
            - [ ] Preliminary discussions don't occur or they're not too organized (aero hasn't asked the questions they needed to)
        - [ ] Chassis should make bounding boxes for these specific integration failure instances #todo #chassis #f27 #aero 
            - [ ] Side aero (radiators and fans)
            - [ ] Cooling lines (had to cut the sidepod)
                - [ ] Cooling line tabs don't match irl position
            - [ ] UT and exhaust clashed
            - [ ] UT and oil pan
        - [ ] Chassis should also create a part that has all the aero bounding boxes in the full assembly #todo #chassis #f27 #aero 
    - [ ] Ask Caleb and Jack and Owen this question too #todo #me #f27 #aero 

### F25
- [ ] Immediate fixes needed
    - [ ] Upper tertiary issue could have been caused by mishandling
    - [ ] Structural analysis load cases should take abuse cases into account #todo #f27 #aero
- [ ] Failures that happened
- [ ] Other notes
    - [ ] UT is very floppy
- [ ] Other teams don't run core in their UT
    - [ ] With core it's a lot less floppy
- [ ] Can you add photos of failures to the wiki????
- [ ] Does composites wanna do the top plate #todo #aero #cpsites #f25
- [ ] Aero needs to be a fly on the wall for the powertrain cooling discussions #todo #aero #pt #f25

### F26
- [ ] What still needs to be done
    - [ ] Half of the molds are machined
        - [ ] Rest of the molds will be done by end of summer 100% according to Hammonds
    - [ ] UT molds need to be designed
    - [ ] Sidepod molds need to be redesigned
        - [ ] Ran a sim with no sidepod with F26
            - [ ] Lost 70 counts in downforce
            - [ ] Reduced drag as well
        - [ ] Current solution is no sidepod
    - [ ] Cooling
        - [ ] Caleb is interested in doing some analysis on the radiator
        - [ ] Currently, aero wants to just give no 
    - [ ] Molds
        - [ ] [[Mold jigs]]
- [ ] Does anything need to be redesigned?
- [ ] What are you gonna do about the weight
    - [ ] Not use shitty carbon
    - [ ] Do resin infusion layups
- [ ] Are you guys gonna spec bolt lengths
- [ ] Make sure that composites and aero are aligned about the UT molds #todo #f26 #aero #cpsites 



### F27
- [ ] What are your priorities for this year?
- [ ] What is the scope of changes you'd like to make?
- [ ] What are you willing to hand off to composites?
- [ ] What physical tests would you like to run?
- [ ] What are you gonna do about the weight
- [ ] Single shear front wing mounts could let us choose the thickness later on #todo #f27 #aero 
- [ ] Can suspension give aero a window that the aero package should perform well in #todo #pdev #sus #me #f27 
- [ ] Can I give them a Cl that wins skidpad #todo #pdev #sus #me #f27 
- [ ] Can we set a target on how adjustable the Cp is on the package thru the mustache wing #todo #f27 #aero #pdev #me 
- [ ] Jack and caleb should be present for TR1 #todo #f27 #aero #me

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