Hi to all,
I'm an aerospace engineer with 8 years of expertise in the development of flight simulations. In particular I've always developed the dynamic aspects of the simulation (equation of motions, flight control systems, aerodynamic models integration and validation, inertia, landing gear dynamics and so on).
However my greatest passion is motorsport and I would like to move to a motorsport company as a vehicle dynamic or simulation expert.
I've seen that a lot of such companies require the knowledge of multibody systems and modelica, so I'm thinking that maybe I can start a my own project of developing a vehicle dynamic model in openmodelica or jmodelica (I'm a linux user) just to learn the basis of the language and in order to use the multibody aspect of such a language.
Do you have any expertise with such tools? Which is the best between the two?
Moreover I would like to learn more about vehicle dynamics and, since I have some books regarding such a matter, I would like to know which one do you suggest me as a basis for the development of a multibody parametric vehicle dynamic simulation. The books are the following:
1) FUNDAMENTALS OF VEHICLE DYNAMICS (THOMAS D. GILLESPIE)
2) RACE CAR VEHICLE DYNAMICS (WILLIAM F. MILLIKEN & DOUGLAS L. MILLIKEN)
3) VEHICLE DYNAMICS: THEORY AND APPLICATION (REZA N. JAZAR)
4) MULTIBODY SYSTEMS APPROACH TO VEHICLE DYNAMICS (MICHAEL BLUNDELL & DAMIAN HARTY)
5) TYRE AND VEHICLE DYNAMICS (H. B. PACEJKA)
6) RACE CAR AERODYNAMICS: DESIGNING FOR SPEED (JOSEPH KATZ) (this is more on aerodynamics)
If you have any other to suggest please do not hesitate.
Thank you,
Xwang