Aerodynamic characteristics about mining dump truck and the improvement of head shape

Journal of Hydrodynamics

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 713-718

  WEI, Xiu ling ^a,b   WANG, Guo qiang ^a   FENG, Su li ^c  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AVIATION UNIVERSITY OF AIR FORCE   (China)

^c Armor Technique Institute of PLA   (China)

Author keywords

dump truck; external flow field; numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AIR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLOW SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; GAS DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MINE TRUCKS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AERODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS; AERODYNAMIC DRAGS; DUMP TRUCK; EDGE ROUNDING; EXTERNAL FLOW FIELD; FINITE VOLUMES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; REYNOLDS;

TRUCKS;

EID: 58149158174     PISSN: 10016058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1001-6058(09)60006-8     Document Type: Article

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