Bluff-body drag reduction using a deflector

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 385-395

  Fourrié, Grégoire ^a,b   Keirsbulck, Laurent ^a,b   Labraga, Larbi ^a,b   Gilliéron, Patrick ^c  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b LAMIH   (France)

^c RENAULT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUFF BODY; COUNTER ROTATING; GENERIC CAR; LONGITUDINAL VORTICES; PASSIVE FLOW CONTROL; PRESSURE PROBES; SEPARATED REGION; STEREOSCOPIC PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; SURFACE FLOW VISUALIZATION; SURVEY METHODS; WAKE FLOWS;

AERODYNAMIC DRAG; AERODYNAMICS; DRAG REDUCTION; FLOW CONTROL; MODEL AUTOMOBILES; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

FLOW VISUALIZATION;

EID: 79751533749     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-010-0937-6     Document Type: Article

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