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Impatto della Turbolenza Ambientale sulla performance Aerodinamica del Veicolo = Environmental Turbulence Impact on Automotive Aerodynamics Performance.
Rel. Andrea Tonoli. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Automotive Engineering, 2022
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In the past years aerodynamics of road vehicles have always been considered as a low impact design feature, mainly submitted to style requirements and poorly affecting car performances, if not on extreme sports car. Recently pursuing always greater car fuel efficiency and thanks to always more powerful CFD software and brute computational power things come to an important change: car’s aerodynamic features are more and more studied and updated. The actual state of the art relies on both CFD simulation correlated with experimental Wind tunnel tests. The point is that car aerodynamic wind tunnels offer a very limited description of real word phenomena.
It’s almost impossible to have a high turbulence level, since most of the wind tunnel are actually designed to decrease it, it’s not possible to correctly analyse the effect of crosswind and it’s impossible to reply real world driving conditions such as abrupt wind burst affecting the vehicle
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