Large trucks drag reduction using active flow control

Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics

Volumn 41, Issue , 2009, Pages 115-133

  Seifert, A ^a   Stalnov, O ^a   Sperber, D ^a   Arwatz, G ^a   Palei, V ^a   David, S ^a   Dayan, I ^a   Fono, I ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; AERODYNAMICS; AUTOMOBILES; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CIRCULAR CYLINDERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRAG REDUCTION; FLOW CONTROL; TRUCK TRAILERS; WIND TUNNELS;

ACTIVE FLOW CONTROL; AERODYNAMIC EFFICIENCY; BACK PRESSURES; BOUNDARY-LAYER SEPARATION; ENERGY INJECTION; MASSIVELY SEPARATED FLOW; RESEARCH PLANS; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT;

AERODYNAMIC DRAG;

EID: 60349128474     PISSN: 16137736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85070-0_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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