Wind tunnel experiments on reducing separated flow region around front ends of vehicles on meter-gauge railway lines

Quarterly Report of RTRI (Railway Technical Research Institute) (Japan)

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 20-25

  Sakuma, Yutaka ^a   Ido, Atsushi ^a  

^a RAILWAY TECHNICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aerodynamic drag; Flow visualization; Meter gauge railway; Separated flow; Surface pressure distribution; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; DRAG; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; GAGES; METRIC SYSTEM; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; RAILROADS; TUNNELS; VEHICLES; WIND TUNNELS;

AERODYNAMIC DRAG; DESIGN GUIDES; FRONT ENDS; METER-GAUGE RAILWAY; RAILWAY LINES; SCALE MODELS; SEPARATED FLOW; SURFACE PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; VEHICLE MODELS; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENTS;

RAILROAD TUNNELS;

EID: 62949216995     PISSN: 00339008     EISSN: 18801765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2219/rtriqr.50.20     Document Type: Article

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