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Wind Tunnel Study on the “Wake Bubble” of Model Truck
Technical Paper
2008-01-0739
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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Heavy traffic volume makes tailgating a common picture on the road today. Wake interference, particularly in the scenario when a relatively small sedan drives into the wake of a large truck, may raise some serious highway safety concerns. In this paper, the characteristics of the separation bubble of model trucks with various degrees of details are studied. The objective is to find out the impact of truck model details on the characteristics of the wake bubble. Our wind tunnel results revealed that the degree of model detail has a significant effect on the wake bubble; the bubble length increases with model details.
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Yang, D., Cheng*, S., and Ting, D., "Wind Tunnel Study on the “Wake Bubble” of Model Truck," SAE Technical Paper 2008-01-0739, 2008, https://doi.org/10.4271/2008-01-0739.Also In
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