Advances in external-aero simulation of ground vehicles using the steady RANS equations

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Makowski, Francis T ^a   Kim, Sung Eun ^a  

^a ANSYS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC CONFIGURATIONS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLOW SEPARATION; FORECASTING; MESH GENERATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PRISMS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; TURBULENCE MODELS; TURBULENT FLOW; TWO PHASE FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; COMPLEX CONFIGURATION; EXTERNAL AERODYNAMICS; GROUND VEHICLE AERODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; REYNOLDS AVERAGED NAVIER STOKES (RANS)EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS STRESS TRANSPORT EQUATIONS; SECOND MOMENT TURBULENCE CLOSURE;

GROUND VEHICLES;

EID: 85072476385     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2000-01-0484     Document Type: Conference Paper

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