A rear spoiler of a new type that reduces the aerodynamic forces on a mini-van

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kim, Inchul ^a   Chen, Hualei ^a   Shulze, Roger C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIFT; VEHICLES;

ADVANCED VEHICLE; AERODYNAMIC FORCES; LOW MASS; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; REAR SPOILER;

AERODYNAMIC DRAG;

EID: 85072420122     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2006-01-1631     Document Type: Conference Paper

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