Development of a Wind Tunnel Test Section for Evaluation of Heavy Vehicle Aerodynamic Drag at a scale of 1:3

SAE International Journal of Commercial Vehicles

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 522-528

  McArthur, Damien J ^a   Burton, David ^a,b   Thompson, Mark ^a   Sheridan, John ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Monash University ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC DRAG; AERODYNAMICS; AUTOMOBILE TESTING; BOUNDARY LAYERS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; TRUCK TRAILERS; WELL TESTING; WIND STRESS;

BOUNDARY-LAYER EVOLUTION; COMPRESSIBILITY EFFECTS; FLOW UNIFORMITY; GROUND BOUNDARY LAYERS; JET WIND TUNNELS; STATIC PRESSURE; VALIDATION STUDY; WIND TUNNEL TESTS;

WIND TUNNELS;

EID: 84886616230     PISSN: 1946391X     EISSN: 19463928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2013-01-2455     Document Type: Article

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