Today is the time when fuel prices are on a continuous hike, and with the growing economy, transportation of freight in less time and with better efficiency becomes a vital factor for the country, thus it becomes necessary to design heavy vehicles in a way in which freight can be transported from one place to another with faster speeds supported by developing road infrastructure and with less fuel consumption. However, the heavy vehicle manufacturing companies for a very long time focused less on the designing part, and thus they were not able to give an aerodynamic friendly design to the vehicles some companies are now focusing on aerodynamic aspect but still a huge number of vehicles currently used in India for freight transportation are not aerodynamic friendly. This paper aims to use SolidWorks to modify the structure of the container and driver’s cab of Tata 3118 in order to reduce the drag force acting on the truck, which, in turn, will give better mileage along with better stability to the vehicle. Two models of each container and driver’s cab have been made in Solidworks and imported to Ansys. One is named as the conventional model and the other is named as the modified model. The Modified model is made by giving apt curves to the structure of the truck and calculating the results in Ansys Fluent. Due to this, the drag force was reduced which further led to give better stability to the truck and less fuel consumption.
Aerodynamic Design of Heavy Transport Vehicles
Lect.Notes Mechanical Engineering
2022-03-23
9 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Aerodynamic Design of Heavy Transport Vehicles
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