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December 2011/ -- Cradle SC/Tetra CFD software was used to perform
aerodynamic analysis of the Tokai Challenger, Tokai University's solar powered
vehicle that won the 2011 Veolia World Solar Challenge.
This race has occurred annually since 2006. Ground vehicles, completely
powered by solar energy, race across 1800 miles in Australia. The vehicles
travel as far as they can until 5pm each day using solar power, 5kW of stored
power (the amount of energy it takes to power a hair dryer), and any kinetic
energy the vehicle can recover while on the road.
The Tokai
Challenger completed the race in 32 hours and 45 minutes averaging nearly 57 mph
and beating 2nd place finisher, the Nuon Solar Team (Netherlands), and 3rd place
finisher, the University of Michigan (USA).
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