Some car shapes produce a substantial drag component from the generation of trailing vortices. This vortex (or lift dependent) drag is difficult to quantify for the whole vehicle, for reasons that are discussed. It has previously been shown that vortex drag may be assessed for some car features by consideration of the relationship between changes in drag and lift. In this paper this relationship is explored for some different vehicle shape characteristics, which produce positive and negative lift changes, and their combinations. Vortex drag factors are determined and vortex drag coefficients considered. An interference effect is identified between some of these features. For the simple bodies investigated the vortex drag contribution can be considerable.


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    Title :

    Vortex Drag Revisited


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    WCX SAE World Congress Experience ; 2023



    Publication date :

    2023-04-11




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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