Effects of vehicle a-pillar shape on local mean and time-varying flow properties

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Alam, Firoz ^a   Watkins, Simon ^a   Zimmer, Gary ^a   Humphris, Clive ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REYNOLDS NUMBER; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; WINDSHIELDS;

AERODYNAMIC NOISE; CURRENT PRODUCTION; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FLOW VISUALISATION; FLUCTUATING PRESSURES; PASSENGER VEHICLES; SEPARATED FLOWS; TIME-VARYING FLOW;

FLOW SEPARATION;

EID: 85072455029     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2001-01-1086     Document Type: Conference Paper

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