Digital computer simulation of a drag racing vehicle

✍ Scribed by Daniel M. Berner; Gearold R. Johnson

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1976
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 610 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-4485
• DOI: 10.1016/0010-4485(76)90096-8

✦ Synopsis

Drag racing is a very popular spectator sport in the US in which two high performance automobiles race side-by-side, from a standing start, for a 402 m (~A mile) distance. The first vehicle to complete the distance wins the race. A digital computer simulation was developed in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University which predicts the performance of a dynamically modelled drag racing vehicle.