Computational simulations for the external aerodynamics of heavy trucks

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Baysal, Oktay ^a   Bayraktar, Ilhan ^a  

^a Old Dominion University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AUTOMOBILES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRAG; ERRORS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; TRUCKS;

COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISUALIZATION; ESTIMATION OF THE ERROR; EXTERNAL AERODYNAMICS; GROUND-PLANE MOTION; PARAMETRIC STUDY; REYNOLDS AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; VALIDATION STUDY;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 85072463434     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2000-01-3501     Document Type: Conference Paper

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