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Simulation and Analysis of Effects of Dynamic Pitching for Idealized Sedan-Type Vehicle Models
Technical Paper
2011-01-0153
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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We investigate the pitching stability characteristics of sedan-type vehicles using large-eddy simulation (LES) technique. Pitching oscillation is a commonly encountered phenomenon when a vehicle is running on a road. Attributed to the change in a vehicle's position during pitching, the flow field around it is altered accordingly. This causes a change in aerodynamic forces and moments exerted on the vehicle. The resulting vehicle's response is complex and assumed to be unsteady, which is too complicated to be interpreted in a conventional wind tunnel or using a numerical method that relies on the steady state solution. Hence, we developed an LES method for solving unsteady aerodynamic forces and moments acting on a vehicle during pitching. The pitching motion of a vehicle during LES was produced by using the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian technique. We compared two simplified vehicle models representing actual sedan-type vehicles with different pitching stability characteristics. The first phase of the simulations validated the numerical method adopted by comparing the flow structures, which was reproduced when a model was stationary, with wind tunnel visualizations. Then, a sinusoidal-forced-pitching oscillation was imposed on the models to probe their responses during pitching. The resulting aerodynamic pitching moment exerted on the models was phase averaged and decomposed into static, quasi-static, and dynamic components for evaluating their aerodynamic damping coefficients. This method successfully quantified the aerodynamic damping factors for vehicles subjected to pitching oscillation.
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Tsubokura, M., Cheng, S., Nakashima, T., Okada, Y. et al., "Simulation and Analysis of Effects of Dynamic Pitching for Idealized Sedan-Type Vehicle Models," SAE Technical Paper 2011-01-0153, 2011, https://doi.org/10.4271/2011-01-0153.Also In
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