Fuel savings by means of flaps attached to the base of a trailer: Field test results

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Browand, Fred ^a   Radovich, Charles ^a   Boivin, Mathieu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Norcan Aluminum Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPOXY RESINS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLAPS; FUEL ECONOMY; FUELS; NASA; TRUCK TRANSPORTATION;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ENGINE PERFORMANCE; FLAP ANGLES; FUEL SAVINGS; REASONABLE ACCURACY; RESIN MATERIALS; SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY; SIZE AND SHAPE;

TRUCK TRAILERS;

EID: 85072474224     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2005-01-1016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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