The focus of the research was to investigate the fundamental aerodynamics of the base flow of a tractor trailer that would prove useful in fluid flow management Initially, industry design needs and constraints were defined This was followed by an evaluation of state-of-the-art Navier-Stokes based computational fluid dynamics tools Analytical methods were then used in combination with computational tools in a design process Several geometries were tested at 1 8 scale in a low speed wind tunnel in addition to the baseline geometry, base add-on devices of the class of ogival boattails and slants were analyzed


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    Title :

    Aerodynamics Overview of the Ground Transportation Systems (GTS) Project for Heavy Vehicle Drag Reduction


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Congress & Exposition ; 1996



    Publication date :

    1996-02-01




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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