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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON FLUID MECHANICS
Transactions ID Number: 54-174
Full Name: Bahram Khalighi
Position: Doctor (Researcher)
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Title of the Paper: SIMULATIONS OF UNSTEADY FLOW AROUND A GENERIC PICKUP TRUCK USING RANS
Authors as they appear in the Paper: BAHRAM KHALIGHI, G. R. SHEVARE,K. SUDHAKAR,B. K. GUPTA,IRSHAD KHAN
Email addresses of all the authors: bahram.khalighi@gm.com, shevare@aero.iitb.ac.in
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: Flow simulations around a generic pickup truck are carried out using a finite volume based CFD code. Simulated velocity and surface pressure distributions are compared with the corresponding experimental data obtained by using PIV. Both simulated and experimental results indicate that the wake of the truck is unsteady and contains two regions, one comprised of a large vortex rotating about a horizontal axis above the truck bed, and the other comprised of two symmetric vortex streaks behind the tailgate. The comparisons between time-averaged measurements and computations revealed that the CFD calculations were able to track the flow trends very well; however, the ability of the code to accurately predict the absolute values was limited.
Keywords: Automobile aerodynamics, Pickup truck flow simulations, Unsteady RANS computations
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