The airflow around a detailed car underbody has been simulated using a commercial CFD software. Moving ground and rotating-wheel boundary conditions were applied in order to allow comparisons of Cd and dCd values with experimental data from a wind tunnel fitted with moving ground facilities. The calculated Cd and dCd figures compared very well with the available experimental results. Four configurations were tested and the maximum difference between experimental and numerical Cd values was 0.009. The individual contribution of different parts of the vehicle to the total drag was calculated and is discussed in this paper. This paper also describes in detail the numerical technique used to perform the computations.


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    Title :

    Numerical Flow Simulations of a Detailed Car Underbody


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    SAE 2001 World Congress ; 2001



    Publication date :

    2001-03-05




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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