The Leading Edge is the first book to summarize the aerodynamic design and construction issues of solar cars and ultralight land vehicles. Author Goro Tamai draws on his own experience in designing solar cars at MIT to produce a book for the ground-up streamlined land-vehicle designer or constructor, as well as for the solar/electric/ultralight vehicle enthusiast. As with any engineering problem, the "best" body shape for solar cars, HPVs, or Electrathoners is not the body of absolute lowest drag. The vehicle system, including the driver, chassis, and energy/drive system must work in concert to produce the maximum output. The Leading Edge will help designers quantify the trade-offs, and make logical decisions.
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The Best mix of aero theory and real-world examples.,
This review is from: The Leading Edge (Engineering and Performance) (Paperback)
Mr. Tamai has combined understandable theory with real-world operational examples of ultra-light land vehicle aerodynamics. Anyone even thinking about working in this field MUST have this book.As a person who has worked on such vehicles for about a decade, I can say that there is a vast void in ground-vehicle aero literature; and what is available is pretty incomprehensible to a civilian. As a person who is trying to figure out how all the formulas and charts relate to something I'm actually trying to design and build, I can say that Mr. Tamai references the theory to concrete examples in a way that is unparalleled in this field. The biggest compliment I can pay to Mr. Tamai is to say that his book is a key tool for the shop. Builders respect his credentials, which include being a top-notch scholar as well as a winning solar-car racer, driver, and builder for many years. Our team copy is this minute in the hands of an expert composites person who is building a potential world-speed-record racing dirtboat/land-yacht/sand-sailer. Amazon, I hope you sell a lot of these books! Mr. Tamai deserves to make some actual money from his brilliant work. Cheers, Richard Rahders, '96 Aussie Team Manager, TNE @ Santa Cruz Solar Racers, "Pumpkinseed" #69, World Solar Challenge '96, Santa Cruz, CA.
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This book is very useful for anyone working with solar or human-powered vehicles. It is the only book of its kind for these types of prototype vehicles and is well worth the money. I'm working on a car for a supermileage competition and this book has been a big help.
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Good Benchmarking Book for Aerodynamic Vehicles,
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I am working on building my first aerodynamic vehicle platform.This book was helpful to me. It helped me learn about various ways people are solving aerodynamic issues with light-weight vehicles. It compared various vehicles and presented related data. It has lots of pictures and graphs. It gives a lot of food for thought for someone new to aerodynamic vehicle design issues. I'd recommend this to anyone designing or building electric or human powered vehicles.
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