Large eddy simulation of a road vehicle with drag-reduction devices

AIAA Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2447-2455

  Verzicco, R ^a   Fatica, M ^a   Iaccarino, G ^a   Moin, P ^a   Khalighi, B ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TRUCKS; VELOCITY; WAKES;

AVERAGED DRAG COEFFICIENTS; CARTESIAN GRID; DRAG REDUCTION DEVICES; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MEAN VELOCITY PROFILES; SUBGRID SCALE MODELING; WAKE MODIFICATIONS;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 0036935440     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.1613     Document Type: Article

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