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| Company type | Engineering |
|---|---|
| Wirth Research Ltd | |
| Industry | LeMansLMPEngineeringRacingDesignSimulatorsF1 |
| Founded | 2003 |
| Founder | Nicholas Wirth |
| Headquarters | Bicester, Oxfordshire ,England |
| Website | www |
Wirth Research is a group ofengineering companies, founded byNicholas Wirth in 2003, specialising inresearch, development, design and manufacture for themotor racing industry and otherhigh technology sectors.
The companies usevirtual engineering technologies to enable a completelysimulated vehicle design, development and testing process. The group is known for deviating from traditional physical development models; most notably neglecting to use awind tunnel and instead relying solely uponcomputational fluid dynamics to design the 2010Virgin RacingVR-01 Formula 1 car.[1]
The Wirth Research group have a long-standing partnership withHonda Performance Development Inc (HPD)[2] which is responsible for the design, development and manufacture of theARX sports cars.[3] Wirth Research also provides client IndyCar teams with full technical support.
Wirth Research encompasses design disciplines that include:
Wirth Research uses tools provided bySiemens Digital Industries Software for many of its design activities.
The company uses ANSYS Fluent solvers for its analysis.
The largest department at Wirth Research, whoseComputational Fluid Dynamics contents are typically evaluated by WR Digital.
Whilst the company is not known for using physical models in the development process, it does use real-world wind-tunnel testing to verify its CFD results.
Two identical simulators are split between HPD's headquarters in Indianapolis and the company's base in Bicester. They are built in partnership with Cruden on a modified 6 degree of freedom motion platform constructed of carbon fibre and presently housing a DW12 Monocoque. The display mode consists of numerous projectors providing a passive stereoscopic 3D 170 degree display of a modified version of the Racer simulation engine.[4]
Virtual reality andaugmented reality applications such asEmersio are developed and used by Wirth Research for assessing ergonomic issues and presenting new ideas in 1:1 scale.