Review: Cfd applications in the automotive industry

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 647-653

  Dhaubhadel, M N ^a  

^a Automated Analysis Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING; COST ACCOUNTING; DESIGN; FLOW OF FLUIDS; IMPROVEMENT;

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; COST REDUCTION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 0030392412     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: 1528901X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2835492     Document Type: Article

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