Matthew Alexander Fujs
Parametric automobile and open-jet wind tunnel models and their application to improved drag coefficient corrections.
Rel. Andrea Tonoli. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Automotive Engineering, 2023
|
Preview |
PDF (Tesi_di_laurea)
- Thesis
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives. Download (4MB) | Preview |
Abstract
The simulation of automotive wind tunnel flow around a vehicle typically relies on the use of simplified models due to the complex, and often proprietary geometries of real test configurations. Current simplified models achieve a low computational cost in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) but fall short at qualitatively capturing a modern vehicle’s complex geometry due to being overly abstract; other models are more accurate but offer only discrete dimensional configurations. The first part of this thesis describes new parametric models for both vehicles and open-jet wind tunnels which aim to represent widely varying geometries through continuous dimensional variability, while remaining simple enough to be usable in modern CFD codes.
The models are built in SALOME, an open-source CAD package
Relators
Academic year
Publication type
Number of Pages
Course of studies
Classe di laurea
Aziende collaboratrici
URI
![]() |
Modify record (reserved for operators) |
