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Formula One's governing body has announced that it has come to a settlement with Scuderia Ferrari after investigations into its 2019 power unit, considered the most powered in F1.
Shell has brought a new fuel to the Belgian Grand Prix that has been developed in tandem with Ferrari’s latest V6 and maintains its contribution of “over 20 percent” towards gains.
“Over the past three seasons, through our fuel and lubricants development work, we’ve contributed to over 20 percent of Ferrari’s power unit gain in performance.
“You always expect to make big gains at the start and then for development progress to taper off. We’ve not found the taper yet.
“That’s enabling us to make significant performance contributions to Ferrari, in that ‘over 20 per cent’ bracket.
“It surprised us a few years ago that the fuel could make so much difference to the new V6 engine but we’ve been able to continue that.”
It is thought Shell introduced a new fuel to partner Ferrari’s first engine upgrade in Canada, which helped trigger a significant in-season performance boost.
The latest fuel continues experimentation with different ingredients, such as additives to counter engine knocking, a phenomenon in the ignition phase that reduces engine performance.
That enables it to push the spark timing of the engine and extract more performance, without sacrificing the calorific value of the fuel too much.
Shell’s massive F1 investment involves more than 50 scientists and engineers that amass more than 21,000 hours of work a year between them.
It is limited to a lower bound, but not an upper bound.saviour stivala wrote: ↑25 Aug 2018, 14:38The octane number of formula one fuel is not limited by the rules.
It goes to show how important fuel kinetics and modeling has become.
What's that?PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑26 Aug 2018, 01:14It is all marketing! Any Doofus can see that with new engine upgrades the combustion parameters will shift and thus the optimum fuel blend will shift to captalize on that. They haven't changed the fuel calorific value they just made the fuel more knock resistant without reducing it too much. Probably utilizing quantum computing calculations to find the best mixture of ingredients.
Quantum computers are extremely good at solving for multiple permutations/states at the same time to the one solution. It is the counterpart to binary computing.ivanlesk wrote: ↑26 Aug 2018, 08:05What's that?PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑26 Aug 2018, 01:14It is all marketing! Any Doofus can see that with new engine upgrades the combustion parameters will shift and thus the optimum fuel blend will shift to captalize on that. They haven't changed the fuel calorific value they just made the fuel more knock resistant without reducing it too much. Probably utilizing quantum computing calculations to find the best mixture of ingredients.
(i know what they are)PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑26 Aug 2018, 18:22Quantum computers are extremely good at solving for multiple permutations/states at the same time to the one solution. It is the counterpart to binary computing.ivanlesk wrote: ↑26 Aug 2018, 08:05What's that?PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑26 Aug 2018, 01:14It is all marketing! Any Doofus can see that with new engine upgrades the combustion parameters will shift and thus the optimum fuel blend will shift to captalize on that. They haven't changed the fuel calorific value they just made the fuel more knock resistant without reducing it too much. Probably utilizing quantum computing calculations to find the best mixture of ingredients.
Many big firms introduced QCs... I think some of them are at 128qbits...ivanlesk wrote: ↑26 Aug 2018, 18:24(i know what they are)PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑26 Aug 2018, 18:22Quantum computers are extremely good at solving for multiple permutations/states at the same time to the one solution. It is the counterpart to binary computing.
And they have functional QC?
Do you have some source or link maybe? This topic interest me alot.
A few working ones are out there with still a few errors (disturbance). But with their deep pockets I can see Shell shelling out the cash to buy calculation time to solve for ingredient combinations... Not sure if they are that advanced in quantum software yet to be honest but F1 is the most advanced sport in the world so I don't rule it out.
Hmm, that is why I asked. Haven't heard that someone made functional QC that could solve this kind of problems..PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑26 Aug 2018, 18:35A few working ones are out there with still a few errors (disturbance). But with their deep pockets I can see Shell shelling out the cash to buy calculation time to solve for ingredient combinations... Not sure if they are that advanced in quantum software yet to be honest but F1 is the most advanced sport in the world so I don't rule it out.
I've read before that the first 128qb QC will be more powerful than all CPUs ever produced, combined.Mr.G wrote: ↑26 Aug 2018, 18:26Many big firms introduced QCs... I think some of them are at 128qbits...ivanlesk wrote: ↑26 Aug 2018, 18:24(i know what they are)PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑26 Aug 2018, 18:22
Quantum computers are extremely good at solving for multiple permutations/states at the same time to the one solution. It is the counterpart to binary computing.
And they have functional QC?
Do you have some source or link maybe? This topic interest me alot.