Aerodynamic performance assessment of BMW validation models using computational fluid dynamics

S Kandasamy, B Duncan, H Gau, F Maroy, A Belanger… - 2012 - sae.org
Aerodynamic performance assessment of automotive shapes is typically performed in wind
tunnels. However, with the rapid progress in computer hardware technology and the maturity …

Aerodynamic effects of different tire models on a sedan type passenger car

C Landstrom, L Josefsson, T Walker… - SAE International Journal …, 2012 - sae.org
Targets for reducing emissions and improving energy efficiency present the automotive
industry with many challenges. Passenger cars are by far the most common means of …

Investigation of the influence of tyre geometry on the aerodynamics of passenger cars

T Hobeika, S Sebben, C Landstrom - SAE International Journal of …, 2013 - sae.org
It is well known that wheels are responsible for a significant amount of the total aerodynamic
drag of passenger vehicles. Tyres, and mostly rims, have been the subject of research in the …

[HTML][HTML] Investigation into the dynamics of wheel spray released from a rotating tyre of a simplified vehicle model

A Kabanovs, A Garmory, M Passmore… - Journal of Wind …, 2019 - Elsevier
Accurate prediction of vehicle soiling is an important step towards being able to understand
and reduce this problem. Previous work has shown that eddy resolving CFD methods are …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of rotating wheels on Reynolds number sensitivity of passenger vehicle drag

E Josefsson, M Urquhart, S Sebben - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Rotating wheels are essential to replicate realistic forces and flow fields during aerodynamic
testing of passenger vehicles. Previous studies have found that the drag coefficient typically …

Influences of different front and rear wheel designs on aerodynamic drag of a sedan type passenger car

C Landström, T Walker, L Christoffersen, L Löfdahl - 2011 - sae.org
Efforts towards ever more energy efficient passenger cars have become one of the largest
challenges of the automotive industry. This involves numerous different fields of …

The aerodynamic development of the Tesla model s-part 2: wheel design optimization

A D'Hooge, RB Palin, S Johnson, B Duncan… - 2012 - sae.org
Aerodynamic efficiency plays an increasingly important role in the automotive industry, as
the push for increased fuel economy becomes a larger factor in the engineering and design …

Artificial intelligence-based Monte-Carlo numerical simulation of aerodynamics of tire grooves using computational fluid dynamics

GM Uddin, SM Arafat, AH Kazim, M Farhan, SG Niazi… - Ai Edam, 2019 - cambridge.org
In the current work, the effects of design (groove depth and groove width) and operational
(temperature and velocity) parameters on aerodynamic performance parameters (coefficient …

Front–rear wheel interactions for a model vehicle: consequence for drag

D Bao, J Borée, C Sicot, C Roebroeck - Experiments in Fluids, 2025 - Springer
The role of front wheels in wheel-vehicle aerodynamic interactions is investigated for a
simplified square-back vehicle by changing the bluntness of the front wheels. The …

Aerodynamic coastdown analysis of a passenger car for various configurations

A Altinisik - International Journal of Automotive Technology, 2017 - Springer
Experimental coastdown analysis were performed on a full scale passenger car model FIAT
Linea to obtain the drag coefficients for three different test configurations as engine-cooling …