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The Aerodynamics of Heavy Vehicles: Trucks, Buses, and Trains

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2004

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Editors:
  1. Rose McCallen

    1. Center for Advanced Fluid Dynamics Applications, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, USA

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  2. Fred Browand

    1. Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Univerity of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

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  3. James Ross

    1. Research Center MS 260-1, Experimental Aerophysics Branch, NASA-Ames, Moffett Field, USA

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  • Proceedings of the "Conference The Aerodynamics of Heavy Vehicles: Trucks, Buses and Trains", held Dec. 2-
  • 6- 2002 in Monterey, California

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics (LNACM, volume 19)

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Table of contents (49 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Keynote Papers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Aerodynamics and Other Efficiencies in Transporting Goods

      • Paul B. MacCready
      Pages 3-8

    3. Commercial Vehicle Aerodynamic Drag Reduction: Historical Perspective as a Guide

      • Kevin R. Cooper
      Pages 9-28

    4. The Status of Detached-Eddy Simulation for Bluff Bodies

      • Philippe R. Spalart, Kyle D. Squires
      Pages 29-45

  3. LES and Hybrid RANS-LES Approaches

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47
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    2. Exploring the Flow Around a Simplified Bus with Large Eddy Simulation and Topological Tools

      • SiniÅ¡a Krajnović, Lars Davidson
      Pages 49-64

    3. Unsteady Flow Around Cylinders with Cavities

      • G. Iaccarino, P. Durbin, S. Talley
      Pages 65-74

    4. Complex CFD for Everyday Use—Practical Applications for Vehicle Analysis

      • Ken Wurtzler
      Pages 75-75

    5. Large eddy simulation of flow around the Ahmed body

      • C. Hinterberger, M. García-Villalba, W. Rodi
      Pages 77-87

    6. Detached-Eddy Simulation of the Ground Transportation System

      • Stephen Maddox, Kyle D. Squires, Ken E. Wurtzler, James R. Forsythe
      Pages 89-104

  5. Experimental Methods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. PIV Study of the Near Wake of a Pickup Truck

      • Luis Bernal, Abdullah M. Al-Garni
      Pages 129-129

    3. Applications of DDPIV to Studies Associated with Road Vehicles

      • Mory Gharib, Francisco Pereira, Emilio Castaño Graff
      Pages 131-141
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It is our pleasure to present these proceedings from the United Engineering Foundation Conference on The Aerodynamics of Heavy Vehicles: Trucks, Buses and Trains held December 2-6, 2002, in Monterey, California. This Department of Energy, United Engineering Foundation, and industry sponsored conference brought together 90 leading engineering researchers from around the world to discuss the aerodynamic drag of heavy vehicles. Participants from national labs, academia, and industry, including truck manufacturers, discussed how computer simulation and experimental techniques could be used to design more fuel efficient trucks, buses, and trains. Conference topics included comparison of computational fluid dynamics calculations using both steady and unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes, large-eddy simulation, and hybrid turbulence models and experimental data obtained from the Department of Energy sponsored and other wind tunnel experiments. Advanced experimental techniques including three-dimensional particle image velocimetry were presented, along with their use in evaluating drag reduction devices. We would like to thank the UEF conference organizers for their dedication and quick response to sudden deadlines. In addition, we would like to thank all session chairs, the scientific advisory committee, authors, and reviewers for their many hours of dedicated effort that contributed to a successful conference and resulted in this document of the conference proceedings. We also gratefully acknowledge the support received from the United Engineering Foundation, the US Department of Energy, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Volvo Trucks America, International Truck and Engine Corporation, and Freightliner LLC.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Advanced Fluid Dynamics Applications, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, USA

    Rose McCallen

  • Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Univerity of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

    Fred Browand

  • Research Center MS 260-1, Experimental Aerophysics Branch, NASA-Ames, Moffett Field, USA

    James Ross

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