Flow around an isolated wheel - Experimental and numerical comparison of two CFD codes

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Wäschle, Alexander ^a   Cyr, Stephane ^b   Kuthada, Timo ^c,d   Wiedemann, Jochen ^c,d  

^a DAIMLER AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^d Vehicle Engines Stuttgart   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; CODES (SYMBOLS); DRAG; FLOW FIELDS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; WHEELS; WIND TUNNELS;

DRAG AND LIFT COEFFICIENTS; GOOD CORRELATIONS; MEAN FLOW STRUCTURES; MODEL SCALE; NUMERICAL COMPARISON; NUMERICAL RESULTS; STATIONARY CONFIGURATIONS; TOTAL PRESSURE;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 85072445687     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2004-01-0445     Document Type: Conference Paper

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