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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
In the current work, the effects of design (groove depth and groove width) and operational (temperature and velocity) parameters on aerodynamic performance parameters (coefficient …
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 …
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 …