The unsteady wind environment of road vehicles, part one: A review of the on-road turbulent wind environment

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Cooper, Kevin R ^a   Watkins, Simon ^b  

^a CooperAero Ltd ^*  (Canada)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; FLOW FIELDS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; ROADS AND STREETS; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND TUNNELS;

CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM; COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; EXPERIMENTAL SIMULATIONS; RELATIVE VELOCITY; TRANSIENT FLOW FIELDS; VEHICLE AERODYNAMICS; VELOCITY SPECTRUM; WIND ENVIRONMENT;

GROUND VEHICLES;

EID: 85072475523     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2007-01-1236     Document Type: Conference Paper

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