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

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Editors:
  1. Fred Browand

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

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  2. Rose McCallen

    1. Center for Advanced Fluid Dynamics Applications (CAFDA), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, L-098, Livermore, USA

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  3. James Ross

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

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  • Proceedings of the "Conference The Aerodynamics of Heavy Vehicles II: Trucks, Buses and Trains", held August 26-31, 2007 in Lake Tahoe, California
  • Presents the current state of computational fluid-dynamics and experimental fluid-dynamics technology as they might apply to the design of heavy vehicles, including trucks, buses and trains
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics (LNACM, volume 41)

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Table of contents (46 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
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  2. Keynote Papers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Bluff Body Flow Research with Application to Road Vehicles

      • Peter Bearman
      Pages 3-13

    3. Climate Change and the Energy Economy

      • David Schimel
      Pages 15-15

  3. Flow Field Characteristics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Large Eddy Simulations and Acoustic Predictions in Automotive Applications

      • G. Iaccarino, F. Ham, Y. Khalighi, D. Bodony, P. Moin, B. Khalighi
      Pages 19-19

    3. Validation of the Immersed Boundary CFD Approach for Complex Aerodynamic Flows

      • B. Khalighi, S. Jindal, J.P. Johnson, K.H. Chen, G. Iaccarino
      Pages 21-38

    4. Experimental Characterization of the Unsteady Flow Field behind Two Outside Rear-View Mirrors

      • Bahram Khalighi, James P. Johnson, Kuo-Huey Chen, Richard G. Lee
      Pages 39-51

    5. Investigation of Buoyancy Driven Flow in a Simplified Full Scale Underhood – PIV and Temperature Measurements

      • P. Merati, C.H. Leong, K.H. Chen, J.P. Johnson
      Pages 53-74

    6. Investigation of Buoyancy Driven Flow in a Simplified Full-Scale Underhood – Numerical Study

      • K.H. Chen, J.P. Johnson, P. Merati, C.H. Leong
      Pages 75-99

    7. The Flow Environment of Road Vehicles in Winds and Traffic

      • Simon Watkins, Riccardo Pagliarella
      Pages 101-101

  4. Separation Control for Drag Reduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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    2. Preliminary Experiments Applying Active Flow Control to a 1/24th Scale Model of a Semi-Trailer Truck

      • L. Taubert, I. Wygnanski
      Pages 105-113

    3. Large Trucks Drag Reduction using Active Flow Control

      • A. Seifert, O. Stalnov, D. Sperber, G. Arwatz, V. Palei, S. David et al.
      Pages 115-133

    4. Flow Separation Control on Trailing Edge Radii using Single Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma Actuators: An Application to Vehicle Drag Control

      • R. Spivey, R. Hewitt, H. Othman, T. Corke
      Pages 135-149

    5. Adaptive Control of Post-Stall Separated Flow Application to Heavy Vehicles

      • L. Cattafesta, Y. Tian, R. Mittal
      Pages 151-160

    6. Investigation of Tractor Base Bleeding for Heavy Vehicle Aerodynamic Drag Reduction

      • Jason Ortega, Kambiz Salari, Bruce Storms
      Pages 161-178

    7. Drag Reduction on a Generic Tractor-Trailer using Active Flow Control in Combination with Solid Flaps

      • Christian Navid Nayeri, Johannes Haff, David Greenblatt, Lennart Loefdahl, Christian Oliver Paschereit
      Pages 179-191

  5. Design Optimization Techniques Related to Vehicle Aerodynamics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193
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    2. Advanced Aerodynamics and Cooling System Solutions for Higher Fuel Efficiency and Decreased Emissions

      • Ilhan Bayraktar
      Pages 195-195
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About this book

It is our pleasure to present these proceedings for “The Aerodynamics of Heavy Vehicles II: Trucks, Buses and Trains” International Conference held in Lake - hoe, California, August 26-31, 2007 by Engineering Conferences International (ECI). Brought together were the world’s leading scientists and engineers from industry, universities, and research laboratories, including truck and high-speed train manufacturers and operators. All were gathered to discuss computer simu- tion and experimental techniques to be applied for the design of the more efficient trucks, buses and high-speed trains required in future years. This was the second conference in the series. The focus of the first conference in 2002 was the interplay between computations and experiment in minimizing ae- dynamic drag. The present proceedings, from the 2007 conference, address the development and application of advanced aerodynamic simulation and experim- tal methods for state-of-the-art analysis and design, as well as the development of new ideas and trends holding promise for the coming 10-year time span. Also - cluded, are studies of heavy vehicle aerodynamic tractor and trailer add-on - vices, studies of schemes to delay undesirable flow separation, and studies of - derhood thermal management.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Fred Browand

  • Center for Advanced Fluid Dynamics Applications (CAFDA), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, L-098, Livermore, USA

    Rose McCallen

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

    James Ross

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