Doe's effort to reduce truck aerodynamic drag - joint experiments and computations lead to smart design

34th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  McCallen, Rose C ^a,i   Salari, Kambiz ^a,j   Ortega, Jason M ^a,j   DeChant, Larry J ^b,k   Hassan, Basil ^b,k   Roy, Christopher J ^c,l   Pointer, W David ^d,m   Browand, Fred ^e,n   Hammache, Mustapha ^e,n   Hsu, Tsun Ya ^e,n   Leonard, Anthony ^f,o   Rubel, Mike ^f,p   Chatalain, Philippe ^f,p   Englar, Robert ^g,q   Ross, James ^h,r   Satran, D ^h,s   Heineck, James T ^h,s   Walker, Stephen ^h,s   Yaste, D ^h,s   Storms, B ^h,s  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Georgia Tech Research Institute ^*

^g GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ Center for Applied Scientific Computing   (United States)

^j New Technologies Engineering Division   (United States)

^k Aerosciences and Compressible Fluid Mechanics Department   (United States)

^l 211 Aerospace Engineering Bldg   (United States)

^m Nuclear Engineering Division   (United States)

ⁿ Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^o Engineering and Applied Sciences   (United States)

^p Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories   (United States)

^q United Automobile Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America   (United States)

^r Systems Analysis Branch   (United States)

^s Aeronautical Projects and Program Office   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW PHENOMENA; HEAVY TRUCK; TOTAL ENERGY; US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY;

AERODYNAMICS; DESIGN; EXPERIMENTS; FLUID DYNAMICS; TRUCKS;

AERODYNAMIC DRAG;

EID: 84896692693     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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