The issue of energy economy in transportation has grown beyond traditional concerns over environment, safety and health to include new concerns over national and international security. In collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy Office of FreedomCAR and Vehicle Technologies’ Working Group on Aerodynamic Drag of Heavy Vehicles, Argonne National Laboratory is investigating the accuracy of aerodynamic drag predictions from commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Software. In this validation study, computational predictions from two commercial CFD codes, Star-CD [1] and PowerFLOW [2], will be compared with detailed velocity, pressure and force balance data from experiments completed in the 7 ft. by 10 ft. wind tunnel at NASA Ames [3, 4] using a Generic Conventional Model (GCM) that is representative of typical current-generation tractor-trailer geometries.
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ASME/JSME 2003 4th Joint Fluids Summer Engineering Conference
July 6–10, 2003
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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- Fluids Engineering Division
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0-7918-3697-5
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Commercial CFD Code Validation for Simulation of Heavy-Vehicle External Aerodynamics Available to Purchase
W. David Pointer,
W. David Pointer
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
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Tanju Sofu,
Tanju Sofu
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
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David Weber
David Weber
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
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W. David Pointer
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
Tanju Sofu
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
David Weber
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
Paper No:
FEDSM2003-45136, pp. 1243-1248; 6 pages
Published Online:
February 4, 2009
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Pointer, WD, Sofu, T, & Weber, D. "Commercial CFD Code Validation for Simulation of Heavy-Vehicle External Aerodynamics." Proceedings of the ASME/JSME 2003 4th Joint Fluids Summer Engineering Conference. Volume 2: Symposia, Parts A, B, and C. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. July 6–10, 2003. pp. 1243-1248. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/FEDSM2003-45136
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