《Floating On Air》.pdf

CYCLING FLOATING ON AIR By David Higgins, Product Design Engineer, Avanti Bikes, and Larisa Marsh, Director, Dynamic Sports Engineering (DSE) Auckland, New Zealand new racing bike designed with AANSYS CFD won Commonwealth Games Gold and Ironman New Zealand. R E P O L S L U A P : O T O H P Alison Shanks’ Commonwealth Games gold medal–winning ride on the Evo II ANSYS.COM © 2012 ANSYS, INC. ANSYS ADVANTAGE 15 CYCLING In a sport in which every fraction of The project recently received a second counts, the Chrono Evo II and Pista Evo II are Avanti Bikes’ fast- est racing machines ever. At the 2010 the highest honors at the Commonwealth Games, Alison Shanks rode her Avanti to capture gold in the New Zealand Best Design Awards women’s 3,000 meter individual pursuit; Cameron Brown rode his to victory at the and a prized 2012 International Ironman New Zealand Triathlon in 2011. The project recently received the highest Red Dot Design Award. honors at the New Zealand Best Design Awards and a prized 2012 International Red Dot Design Award. Frames for the time trial/triath- lon (Chrono) and track (Pista) racing bikes were developed with fluid dynam- ics software from ANSYS. To help design the bikes, Dynamics Sports Engineering (DSE) engineers first used ANSYS CFD- Flo computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software to optimize the aerodynam- ics of individual components, such as the head tube, fork, bottom bracket and seat stay attachment. Next, engineers performed a systems simulation as they combined components