By a reduced-scale model in a wind tunnel, we investigate the dispersion behavior of exhaust gas from automobiles. Two types of vehicles are considered, a passenger car and a small-size truck. Tracer gas experiments show that the exhaust gas dispersion is enhanced significantly by the vehicle wake compared to the case when the vehicle body is absent. The passenger car and the truck promote dispersion in the horizontal and the vertical direction, respectively. The wake field is analyzed by particle image velocimetry (PIV), and the distribution of the mean and the fluctuation fields is found to conform to the concentration field of the exhaust gas. The buoyancy of the exhaust gas has minor effect except on the vertical spread behind the truck whose wake flow amplifies the vertical displacement generated near the pipe exit. (All rights reserved Elsevier).


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    Title :

    A wind-tunnel study on exhaust gas dispersion from road vehicles-Part I: Velocity and concentration fields behind single vehicles


    Contributors:
    Kanda, I. (author) / Uehara, K. (author) / Yamao, Y. (author) / Yoshikawa, Y. (author) / Morikawa, T. (author)


    Publication date :

    2006


    Size :

    20 Seiten, 20 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English






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