Computational visualization of unsteady flow around vehicles using high performance computing

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 981-990

  Tsubokura, Makoto ^a   Kobayashi, Toshio ^b   Nakashima, Takuji ^c   Nouzawa, Takahide ^d   Nakamura, Takaki ^d   Zhang, Huilai ^e   Onishi, Keiji ^e   Oshima, Nobuyuki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION   (Japan)

^e Advance Soft Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW SIMULATION; FLOW STRUCTURE; FLUID DYNAMICS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; TUNNELS; VEHICLES; WIND TUNNELS;

AERODYNAMIC DATUM; AERODYNAMIC FORCES; COMPLICATED GEOMETRIES; COMPUTATIONAL VISUALIZATIONS; EARTH SIMULATORS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATIONS; MEAN PRESSURE DISTRIBUTIONS; RANS SIMULATIONS; REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES SIMULATIONS; ROAD VEHICLES; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; UNSTEADY AERODYNAMIC FORCES; VEHICLE AERODYNAMICS; VEHICLE SURFACES; WIND TUNNEL MEASUREMENTS; WIND TUNNEL TESTS; YAWING ANGLES;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 60749106712     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2008.01.020     Document Type: Article

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