Giacomo Sordoni
Development of a methodology for measuring the wheel ventilation drag in a 1:1 scale wind tunnel.
Rel. Gaetano Iuso, Francesco Uffreduzzi. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Aerospaziale, 2024
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The modern world’s challenges regarding the CO2 emission levels and the increasing cost of fuels established new development targets for the automotive industry. The birth of electric vehicles put a new option on the market for trying to reduce pollutants emissions; their weak points, however, highlight the need for research and development in order to offer in the future a product that can be comparable to the most successful cars equipped with internal combustion engines. This new generation of ground vehicles, indeed, mainly suffer from a reduced range. For this reason, nowadays, great focus is put on cars’ aerodynamic development for trying to reduce any form of aerodynamic drag (conventional aerodynamic drag and ventilation drag); this approach is as valid as a weight reduction of the entire vehicle in order to lower the power required by the engine for winning these energy losses.
However, the accomplishment of this purpose through a mass decrease of the car would be much more complicated due to the fact that would result in conflicting goals compared to the classical project requirements such as safety and comfort but also with the new ones like the battery weight required for the desired ranges
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