Vortices are hard to see from Flow Vis, but I believe that the below image is showing some swirl or rotation at this exact location of the training edge of the upwashing junction. Theory supported? 🤓

Flow Vis image from Floorent Gooden on instagram.

.. This larger merged vortex stays outboard of the front Tyre and downwashes air onto the outboard Tyre jet which can help to suppress and dissipate it quicker reducing any negative influence it may have on your floor edge downstream.

Most definitely. Overheating quite often

I think that these vortices will detach and be counter rotating with bulk outwash btwn them. The benefit of this could be creating more outwash using the side pod for the upper front tyre wake. It's a really interesting design, and I wonder if more teams could be looking at this option as well.

Obv, having the CFD would help, but I think that the inlet pressure is > than the local pressure on either side. The upper edge will have the downwash from the shark inlet, so ⬇️ P. The bottom edge could just be marginally less, even though you will have some forward undercut pressure built up here.

Both of the extended upper and lower edges look like vortex shedding edges. So it's safe to say that there is some rotation along these edges. But how to resolve the direction?

So tribal. Even creators and analysts arguing with one another

..while still holding the mid wake of the front tyre outboard. A wonderful example of aero driven packaging.

The space between the rads and the exhaust headers is where the depression is in the sidepod, with the headers forming the “tail” of the tadpod. This allows Merc to maximize the downwash of the sidepod transition into the rear coke, and slim the shape of outboard sidepod volume maximizing undercut..

For the blue arrow, we can also see a bit of the boundary layer as the slower moving air upstream of the suspension junction doesn't have as much paint. The influence of the solid body creates an upstream pressure build up that helps to deflect some of the air around it. @xavigazquez.bsky.social

Just so happens @mollym-o.bsky.social and I just recorded the next episode of the @brakingbiaspod.bsky.social today! We talk exactly about this! Episode will be out soon and we both go into detail on it!

Also, you would not run a RW flow vis with DRS open. It’s a time averaged flow field visualization, and you wouldn’t change the flow fields this drastically for time averaged results. You would get a jumbled mess. Also validated by F1Talks on X that it was indeed closed.

So to see these two regions of what looks like high shear, and a clear line of flow pattern difference just sparked my curiosity. Not saying this is 100% mini-DRS, nor do I know for sure what it is. But even speaking with other aero’s it’s very curious.

Then along the g-line we can see the outwash of air pulled down into the floor edge wing. More than likely spinning up some structures that load up the floor edge and clean up the diffuser. (Lower arrows)

Then here we can see the air from alongside the center cooling box migrating down into the water slide where low pressure suction is building as it ramps down. (Top arrow)