Formula Student Thermal Systems

Cooling-system architecture, thermal-fluid modelling, and evidence-based design decisions for Formula Student vehicles.

Building an FSAE Cooling System from Scratch

Building an FSAE Cooling System from ScratchI first used a thermo-fluid model to reject the passive E3 architecture under 40 °C ambient conditions, split the system into a dual-temperature loop, and evaluated E7 and E8 using public component data, boundary sweeps, and OpenFOAM surrogate duct models. The results showed that passing numerical checks alone does not justify procurement approval.