Study of the Effective Backlight Angle Influence on Vehicle Aerodynamics and Contamination

Authors

• Rogerio Goncalves dos Santos - University of Campinas
• Danilo Oliveira - General Motors LLC

Topic

• Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
• Commercial vehicles
• Simulation and modeling

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