Flow around a simplified car, part 2: Understanding the flow

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 919-928

  Krajnović, Siniša ^a   Davidson, Lars ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Generic Car; Ground Vehicle; Large Eddy Simulation; LES; Vehicle Aerodynamics

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GROUND VEHICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VORTEX FLOW;

GENERIC CAR; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION (LES); VEHICLE AERODYNAMICS;

FLOW INTERACTIONS;

EID: 27344453534     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1989372     Document Type: Conference Paper

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